What are the pros and cons of raising federal taxes?

Answer 1

Maintaining the right amount of taxation is a very tricky thing to do in order to keep the economy stable. This is because if the taxes are too high, the government is well funded, but its people don't have much money to spend to increase business, and thus less money is taken from each individual and business. On the other hand, if you tax too little, the government gets very little money from all the business that's going on in the country. The lower the taxes, the more industry that usually goes on, but also, less funding for government agencies and programs. Thus too little, no money, too much, no money. It is thus a very difficult balancing act.