TAX REFORM: THE GAME

Tax Reform: The Game gives you the opportunity to change the ‘balance of extraction' of taxes from the private enterprise economy. It demonstrates that tax reductions from one source must be offset with tax increases from another source if the total revenue supplied for state government is to remain unchanged. Of course, if your goal includes an overall tax increase or tax cut that balance doesn't net to zero. But, if you leave the ‘spending decisions' to the constitutionally responsible body - the legislature and governor - a tax reformer will concentrate on changing the ‘balance of extraction.'... In this game, constructed from actual Georgia state tax return groups, your choices will be filtered through Georgia's financial realities. The balance of higher and lower income taxpayers is stored in the engine behind the game so your choice to raise or lower income taxes will reflect those balances in the Georgia taxpayer population. The tool shows the estimates for tax revenue for 2012..

Primary location: Atlanta United States