Assessing the impact of income tax, social security tax, and health care spending on U.S. saving rates

Alan Auerbach, Jagadeesh Gokhale and Laurence J. Kotlikoff ()

Economic Review, 1992, issue Q IV, pages 13-21

Abstract: An assessment of the effects of proposed reductions in income and Social Security taxes on middle-income Americans and of cuts in health care spending, using the generational accounting method to examine their likely impact on both current and future national saving rates.

Keywords: Income tax; Saving and investment; Social security; Medical care, Cost of (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1992
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