…The second is that investors expect that after-tax profits will rise at the expense of wages or due to lower taxes. The third is due to a bubble, or “irrational…

…restaurants and motorsports tracks that provide special tax subsidies to particular industries! Also read more: Environment and Taxes, Insurance, Job creation, Payroll Taxes, Regulation, Tax in the News, Tax Legislation…

…to taxes works best. That is, the state with the lowest taxes will “steal” business from other states and produce the fastest economic growth. A lot of people seem to…

There were three big political stories that came out of David Gregory’s fabulously interesting interview of Paul Ryan aired last Sunday on Meet the Press. One was that Ryan said:…

Via Robert Waldmann Richard Thaler at Bloomberg provides a different take on innovators and job creators: A recurring theme of this year’s presidential campaign is the need to encourage the…

Jared Bernstein tells us yet again what the data has been telling us forever (my bold): I agree with Chye-Ching Huang, who agrees with the Congressional Research Service, Len Burman,…

One side has no point. I have mentioned from time to time the repeated Gallup polls showing strong support for tax progressivity. this is not a new phenomenon, Gallup started…

…state income taxes from hundreds of thousands of workers – and are keeping the money with the states’ approval, says an eye-opening report published on Thursday. The report from Good…

…taxes and revenues, and having at least enough honesty not to obfuscate results. Sadly, there is a dispute among the folks who call themselves economists about that, and it seems…

…and III: wages have stagnated. Here we see what corporations have done with all that money. There is a limited selection set: pay taxes, distribute as dividends, pay down debt,…