The Tax Foundation says yes: When the federal statutory corporate income tax rate of 35 percent is added to the weighted average of state corporate income taxes, the resulting rate…

…US: Replace the payroll tax with a progressive consumption tax, i.e. a tax only on the income that an individual does not save; Eliminate corporate income taxes, but tax capital…

…realistic set of budget offsets, and the most promising area is corporate welfare. But President Bush must endorse a serious, realistic set of budget offsets, and the most promising area…

…old savings. Dotcoms were spending down pension-plan money mediated through venture-capital firms, and they weren’t creating new profit through each employee hired. Corporate profits per payroll job in 1998 were…

…terms. The profit-induced demand curve shift rests on the notion of higher corporate profitability. Indeed, real corporate profits have risen by 2.7X. Note, however, that the ratio of CEO compensation…

…lead to the substitution of salary-based pay with equity-based incentive pay. This came about mostly because of the wave of corporate takeovers: a company was ripe for a takeover when…

Cutting Corporation Taxes As reported in today’s NYTimes, congressional Republicans want to reduce the top corporate tax rate. The result would be to reduce federal tax receipts by $60 billion….

Better Late than Never I just caught this from a 2/27 NYT piece: The [Bush tax] plan’s centerpiece would slash taxes on corporate dividends at a cost to the Treasury…

More Mankiw from MaxSpeaks Max Sawicky finds two more nuggets in Prof. Mankiw’s books. Apparently, deficits do affect interest rates and the corporate income tax only hurts workers and customers…

…little of their own money at risk, were spending corporate resources on ill- conceived diversification and empire-building campaigns.” “Unfortunately,” Jensen concludes, “too much of the current M&A; activity falls into…