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  • The 2003 Tax Cut on Capital Gains Entirely Paid for Itself

    01/27/2006 7:35:57 AM PST · by Marxbites · 90 replies · 1,279+ views
    NRO ^ | today | Donlad Luskin
    I’m not just saying it — CBO is. On Thursday the Congressional Budget Office released its annual Budget and Economic Outlook, and buried in one of its nearly impenetrable tables of numbers is a remarkable story that has gone entirely unreported by the mainstream media: The 2003 tax cut on capital gains has entirely paid for itself. More than paid for itself. Way more. To appreciate this story, we have to go back in time to January 2003, before the tax cut was enacted. Table 3-5 on page 60 in CBO’s Budget and Economic Outlook published in 2003 estimated that...