…estate taxes are no more a “penalty for saving” than capital gains taxes; (b) we pay taxes on money we already paid taxes on all the time: I pay taxes…

by cactus Taxes and Business Creation When you cut taxes, it leads to the creation of new businesses. By cutting taxes, people keep more of their hard earned money which…

…income –pay no federal income taxes whatsoever. See Rubin, IRS Finds One in 189 High Earners Paid No U.S. Taxes in 2009, Bloomberg.com (May 29, 2012). How does someone with…

…65% or so, cutting taxes is associated with slower economic growth and raising taxes is associated with faster economic growth. Here’s something a bit more academic showing the same thing….

…probably much less so than proponents of repeal would have us believe. Any tax discourages what is taxed, so labor taxes discourage labor and taxes on capital income discourage savings….

…political opposition to significant increases in income taxes is strong, then adding a new VAT on top of existing income taxes is one important option to consider. Let me take…

…earned by labor. Cain repeals all taxes on income earned by capital (and taxes income earned by wages particularly hard–at about 27%, with the “income” tax on wages only, the…

Via Econospeak Barkley Rosser ponders taxes and distribution: Taxes And Income Distribution: The Way It Was And The Way It Is Got invited on to the local TV station today…

Presidents, Taxes and Economic Growth by Mike Kimel One of the never-ending debates in economics is the extent to which taxes affect the economy. Most people are fairly certain that…

by Linda Beale Right-Wing Mythology 101: the myth of the rich fleeing taxes One of the right-wing’s most cherished myths is that highly progressive taxes will kill state revenues, since…