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A Finger Exercise for Dr. Black

…for instance, and I believe more corporate tax deductions “luxury boxes”—that might have affected the number of people who drive to Yankee Stadium positively. But there were no other major…

Kudlow’s Komedy Kapers (Cross-post)

…impression that the corporate tax burden is greater here than in other developed countries. Because the U.S. tax code offers so many deductions, credits, and other mechanisms by which corporations…

Tax cuts and deficit commissions

…most deductions and credits, cut the Social Security benefits (changing the cost-of-living adjustments and reducing growth in benefits for the top 25% of beneficiaries), give a one-year Social Security payroll…

Greg Mankiw’s anti-tax arguments

…because of the phase out of deductions at high income levels plus medicare tax of 3.8% plus Massachusetts income tax of 5.3% (minus an unspecified return because of the federal…