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The means by which a government adjusts its level of spending in order to monitor and influence a nation's economy it's known as Fiscal policy. The federal government's chief source of funds to cover its expenses is the income tax on individuals, which in 1999 brought 48% of total federal revenues. An argument can be made about the use of taxes as a means to influence the economy. Hence the reason most debates about income tax today as a macroeconomic policy revolve around three issues: (1) the appropriate overall level of taxation; (2) how graduate, or "progressive" the tax should be; and (3) the extent to which the tax should be used to promote social objectives. In fact, some economists-democrats and republicans- have suggested that the economy would fare better if the government would eliminate the income tax altogether and replace it with a consumption tax, taxing people on what...

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