2 days ago by K.D.

Tax Fairness Versus Function When a progressive income tax code is used to redistribute resources, the relative punishment of those who perform better is joined by relative reward for those who perform worse. This means the decreased incentive to perform strongly at the top is matched by an even gre ...

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3 days ago by anonemiss

A Big Mess Now it seems that the end for Greece is near and that a default is due any day, well let us assume that such a thing will happen tomorrow, what should Greece do the day after tomorrow to rebuild its economy? Clearly Greece can not just wipe the slate clean and start [...]

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4 days ago by Larry Doyle

Stephen Moore wrote a commentary entitled A Fairness Quiz for the President in the Wall Street Journal yesterday which generated hundreds of comments. The comments seemed to break down largely along party lines. I think most of those commenting might not grasp the full picture. With our nation in th ...

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4 days ago by Wayne Allyn Root

[1]Image via Wikipedia President Obama keeps telling us that our taxes are too low. Really? But how can that be when all the formerly communist ex-Soviet republics now have lower tax rates than America. Do they know something that we don’t? Obama keeps telling us that we must tax the rich at higher ...

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5 days ago by K.D.

In this website’s post on February 19, 2011, “Tax the Rich, Get Less of Them,” it was predicted that the decision by government officials to remedy the Illinois budget shortfall by dramatically increasing taxes, especially on the rich, would most certainly exacerbate the problem. It has taken less t ...

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11 days ago by Belinda Malaspina

Lo slovacco Sloboda a Solidarita, ossia il locale partito liberale di centrodestra il cui nome suona più o meno come Libertà e Solidarietà, ha ideato una singolare campagna per l’abolizione delle immunità parlamentari: diciassette deputati hanno posato più o meno senza veli e la fotografia, pubblica ...

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12 days ago by Deaniac83

Today, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse is proposing a bill that would institute the Buffett Rule - the extraordinarily simple concept that millionaires, specifically those with more than $1 million a year in income, should pay at least the same tax rate as the middle class (at least a flat 30%) - into the f ...

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12 days ago by Chris

I did my taxes yesterday and was left shaking my head at how screwed up the tax system is in the United States. It takes a guy with a master's degree and 20 years of experience in finance 4 hours...

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12 days ago by Daniel J. Mitchell

By Daniel J. Mitchell Leftists want higher tax rates and they want greater tax compliance. But they have a hard time understanding that those goals are inconsistent. Simply stated, people respond to incentives. When tax rates are punitive, folks earn and report less taxable income, and vice-versa. W ...

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12 days ago by Daniel J. Mitchell

By Daniel J. Mitchell Leftists want higher tax rates and they want greater tax compliance. But they have a hard time understanding that those goals are inconsistent. Simply stated, people respond to incentives. When tax ... New Academic Study Confirms Previous IMF Analysis, Shows that Lower Tax Rate ...

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