…but they’re pretty close. I am going to discuss the taxes. Ezra Klein (who is very expert on health care financing) is not impressed “It’s everything critics fear a single…

…high taxes, support flips and 57 percent of millennials opt for smaller government with fewer services and low taxes, while 41 percent prefer large government. Ah, yes; the ole, reliable,…

…and other “owners” of equity in businesses the ability to deduct such State and Local Taxes in full); a larger standard deduction but the elimination of personal exemptions; a larger…

This is an extended post on the caveat to debt and taxes 1. It is joint work with Brad DeLong and Barbara Annicchiarico. The point is that, in his Presidential…

…on. Taxes, in one form or another, fund all government services; and that’s a lot. A lot of blood, sweat, and tears – and taxes, have gone into the building…

…are paying their top executives more than they’re paying federal income taxes.  Matters have worsened with trump taking office in 2016 and the TCJA Making the Tax System, and the…

…was earned overseas (though realistically, some of it probably got there through transfer pricing), it can defer paying taxes on it until the money comes home. Taxes deferred are taxes…

…to $10,600 while the nation is at war. 4. Eliminate all these taxes: – Social Security Taxes – Social Security & Medicare funded from general revenue instead – Estate Taxes…

…taxes in there, no damn politician can ever scrap my social security program. Those taxes aren’t a matter of economics, they’re straight politics.” So you would think that a Democratic…

…tax increase on the rich or anything. I think the motivation of both posts is the observation that European taxes are, if anything, slightly less progressive than US taxes, but…