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Three-Card Monte (Spring 2004)

…income taxes. Yet people were willing to accept a regressive tax increase to sustain Social Security. Now the joke’s on them. Mr. Greenspan pushed through an increase in taxes on…

Financial Speculation Taxes

OMB Watch points us to the idea that: Financial Taxes Can Raise Revenues, May Help Stabilize Markets The congressional Super Committee, tasked with forging a $1.2 trillion deficit reduction package…

Long term fiscal problems 2007…PGL

…elections: In case Mr. Romney hasn’t seen my question. let me restate it. How will you address the long-run fiscal problem, that is, will you raise income taxes or will…