…either in the form of an excise tax based on their leverage (since their borrowed funding is what costs the government in terms of bailout potential) or in the form…

…accounting profits equal to sales plus net inventory investment minus spending on labor, materials and excise taxes, then we discount that flow at an annual rate of 30% and see…

…Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and tax credits for small employers; those costs are partly offset by $201 billion in revenues from the excise tax on high-premium…

…U.S. border with Mexico. That is, whatever taxes and burdens Uncle Sam might impose (however wisely or foolishly) on economic activity within the U.S., those burdens are nation-wide. No special…

…it is more efficient to redistribute wealth a short distance than a long distance. Simple models (public finance 101) suggest that income taxes are more efficient than excise taxes and…

…federal Dept. of Transportation to use these means to get some. So there is a vicious double circle of irony here, that as states and localities cut taxes during the…

…excise-type taxes). Accordingly, the overall tax burden is very different from that portrayed solely by looking at corporate income tax rates. The Tax Foundation claims that the same “trends” apply…

…director of Yale’s Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, propose a penny-per-ounce excise tax on “sugared beverages.” That’s nearly $3 per case. And who else is on board ?…

Lifted from comments cactus style by Reader Stuart Levine continued from the post on Mankiw and corporate taxes here and here: Mankiw relies on “[A] 2006 study [by] the economist…

…of their income from taxes. But since only exporting firms can take advantage of this particular tax break, it amounts to an export subsidy, which is something that violates WTO…