Tax Foundation: A Comparison of the Long-Term Economic
Effects of the Obama and Romney Tax Plans:
Over the past several weeks, Tax Foundation economists have published a series of studies that analyze the
long-term economic and distributional effects of the tax plans outlined by President Barack Obama and
Governor Mitt Romney. These comprehensive assessments were done using the Tax Foundation’s Tax
Simulation and Macroeconomic Model which measures how changes in tax policies affect the economic
levers that determine economic growth, workers’ incomes, and the distribution of the tax burden.
