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Where are the Household Entrepreneurs?

…payments. So we are left with the possibility that the income of those entrepreneurs is being maintained at their corporate level, for some reason.* Which should mean that Corporate Tax…

Capital Gain Taxes & Investment: Risk and Return

…the current U.S. tax code increases the conditions that lead to corporate bankruptcy.The corporate earnings subject to tax, for example, exclude interest payments but not dividends; this leads corporations to…

Kerry’s Tax Proposals Kerry is giving a speech today in which he will propose some significant changes to corporate taxes. The NYTimes describes the main features of his proposal: The…

TPP summary

…“partnership” for corporate protectionism: —Food safety. Any of our government’s food safety regulations (on pesticide levels, bacterial contamination, fecal exposure, toxic additives, etc.) and food labeling laws (organic, country-of-origin, animal-welfare…

What the Supreme Court’s refusal today to agree to decide whether to strike down the federal statute that bars corporations from making contributions directly to candidates and political parties might suggest about the outcome of Hobby Lobby

…that cutely combined Citizens United’s corporate-free-speech rights with Hobby Lobby/Conestoga Wood’s corporate-right-to exercise-religion claim. Given that the claim there was a free-expression-in-the-exercise-of-religion argument brought under the First Amendment’s speech clause…

Corporate Illogic

Yves smith writes: You must go, now, and read a critically important piece questioning the logic of sending American manufacturing jobs offshore. It’s titled Losing Sparta (hat tip Dikaios Logos)…