by Linda Beale Taxes, Government, and the Good Life, Part 2 In yesterday’s post, Taxes, Government, and the Good Life, I noted the “long-term position of the GOP” in favor…

…Proposed Bet for Professors Bryan Caplan and David R. Henderson (and Anyone Else Who Believes Lower Taxes Generate Faster Economic Growth) Cross posted at the Presimetrics blog. Professors Caplan and…

…managers, industrialists and heirs, the tax records reviewed by ProPublica show. The ban on the wealthy making Roth conversions was lifted. They paid their taxes upfront. And never paid taxes…

…taxes. Regrettably, the income, estate and payroll taxes are much too lenient on the highest paid groups. The shrinking of the income tax rate structure (from many different rate levels…

…importance of government intervention in the medical care market–European and Canadian health care, which are generally forms of government single-payer or single-payer/single-provider care, and Medicare, which is a form of…

…For instance, we’ve got three six-year, single-president slices. RDR is a single span from ’81-’86, when Volcker and Reagan, with a mixed Congress, were trying to pull us out of…

…is progressive in this sense, many state and local taxes, such as sales and property taxes are regressive in that lower income people pay higher percentages of their income than…

As regular readers know, I have been arguing since long before angrybear.blogspot.com existed that Democrats should campaign on raising taxes on rich people (I was convinced in 1993 or 1994)….

…the government to furlough teachers and fire fighters and cut popular services. Refusing to pay more in taxes hastens the end of exactly what we want to pay taxes for.”…

…2009). The right is up in arms about the possibility of slightly higher taxes on wealthy people. I’ve received emails because of my blog postings favoring higher taxes, and also…