…I will not raise taxes on the middle class. I want to raise incomes, not taxes, and I’m going to do everything I can to make sure that the wealthy…

by Linda Beale Taxes, Government, and the Good Life, Part 2 In yesterday’s post, Taxes, Government, and the Good Life, I noted the “long-term position of the GOP” in favor…

…Proposed Bet for Professors Bryan Caplan and David R. Henderson (and Anyone Else Who Believes Lower Taxes Generate Faster Economic Growth) Cross posted at the Presimetrics blog. Professors Caplan and…

…managers, industrialists and heirs, the tax records reviewed by ProPublica show. The ban on the wealthy making Roth conversions was lifted. They paid their taxes upfront. And never paid taxes…

…benefits in exchange for the pittance of slightly higher taxes on the upper crust. The article goes even further astray at the end with its label of a “two-part deal”…

…go. Taxes Revenues as a percent of GDP. This means there’s no need to correct for inflation, with the inherent uncertainties of that correction. Short story, everybody cuts taxes except…

…is progressive in this sense, many state and local taxes, such as sales and property taxes are regressive in that lower income people pay higher percentages of their income than…

…up the message, repeatedly hectoring the freshman congressman at a town hall meeting to raise taxes on the wealthy and corporations. The extremely widespread solid majority view that taxes on…

…the government to furlough teachers and fire fighters and cut popular services. Refusing to pay more in taxes hastens the end of exactly what we want to pay taxes for.”…

…2009). The right is up in arms about the possibility of slightly higher taxes on wealthy people. I’ve received emails because of my blog postings favoring higher taxes, and also…