by Linda Beale Inequality: Obama’s Speech, Detroit’s Bankruptcy, Taxes Was Obama’s speech on inequality really what Michael Lind claims in “The Day the Right Lost the Economic Argument” Salon.com (July…
…the source. Because this is a zero-sum game. He first claims that these high tax rates for the top bracket, when coupled with other taxes–state and local taxes, sales taxes,…
…figured out five weeks before the election—and eight months after I starting saying, repeatedly and explicitly, that I would lower taxes by 20% on the wealthy (they’re jobs creators, you…
It’s nice to see Matthew Yglesias embracing Modern Monetary Theory, but I wonder if he totally gets it: The point of collecting taxes isn’t that the government needs money (it…
…an “alternative minimum tax” like, say, the alternative minimum tax). One could replace the deductions by an AMT like provision that taxes are the greater of taxes calculated with the…
…and profits taxes do interfere directly with current business decisions. Taxes effectively aimed at economic rent, including land rent and mineral rents, and at “absentee landlords” as Veblen called them,…
by Linda Beale Increasing taxes on the rich crossposted with Ataxingmatter Sometimes a few letters to the editor can restore one’s faith in the sensibleness of fellow Americans. I particularly…
by Linda Beale Neal Bill: US companies use of affiliated reinsurers to avoid taxes US insurers are complaining about the Neal Bill, HR 3424, introduced Jul 30, 2009, which would…
…saving, and investment. Provides individual income tax payers a choice of how to pay their taxes – through existing law, or through a highly simplified code that fits on a…
by cactus Obama, Bush, and Mankiw: A Look Taxes, Spending, and Bull#@% in the Great Recession This post serves as a quick follow-up to my previous post on real GDP…