…income earners. There is a ground swell for taxing the rich more, which is acceptable to most. When we look at this closely, there is an argument for some of…

…obscure country called the USA is particularly dramatic. The USA went from a land rich agricultural country to the richest country in the world during a period when it had…

by Linda Beale Right-Wing Mythology 101: the myth of the rich fleeing taxes One of the right-wing’s most cherished myths is that highly progressive taxes will kill state revenues, since…

This item raised my eyebrows when I saw it. Joshua Tucker at The Monkey Cage points out that the Republicans are proposing we do exactly that. The idea (NYT, emphasis…

…risk alienating the middle class to support preferential taxation of the rich. By the way, lots of the not-rich work quite hard, often at thankless jobs that provide no cushion…

…be: Make the Rich Richer! (no matter who else is hurt). Note that this is all happening in a context where the rich are getting much richer, and everybody else…

…taxation and the decreasing burden on the rich. See Canonizing the Rich, Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. As Maule shows in his posts, the rich have an increasing…

…argument against taxing the rich. That is because any redistribution in the optimal tax model derives from its assumption of the declining marginal utility of money, and the “ riches…

My hunt for Obama’s econ advisor lead me to a paper that incorporates a review of a book: Does Atlas Shrug? The Economic Consequences of Taxing the Rich. It caught…

…of what could be done if our leadership considered the needs of millions of the US population. “Raising taxes on the Ultrarich,” Measures to enact a series of tax reforms…