…the impact of lower taxes on capital on investment I am hard pressed to see the benefits such lower taxes are suppose to deliver. The peak was under Carter just…

…taxes that don’t change people’s behavior, and don’t prevent people from doing what they otherwise would do simply to avoid the tax. Income taxes and consumption taxes and VAT and…

…Plan: Prioritize Cuts for the Rich. That statement is simply not true, since the estate tax, the AMT and the reduction of taxes on pass-through income and on corporate income…

…White House. It is smaller than extending expiring tax cuts but bigger than ending taxes on tips or lowering corporate taxes for domestic manufacturers.  Trump’s proposal has revived a dormant…

…(1) collectively, Americans cheat on their taxes and (2) whether the tax burden, the percentage of GDP that the government collects in taxes, rises or falls seems to have nothing…

…disincentive to financial transactions, that, too, accomplishes a public good. The financial transaction tax is really a variety of the so-called ‘sin taxes’ that provide revenue when the purchase behavior…

…started tweeting about how Obama’s recent activities meant that liberals need to double-down and work to get large Democratic majorities for Obama in 2013. Since that worked so well in…

…crowd’s position is this: if a woman has a voluntary abortion its a sin. However, if a hospital or a pharmaceutical company or some other entity denies her some resource…

…(also discussed to solve the deficit and other problems) 2)Tax some or all employer-paid health care benefits 3)Tax soda 4)Tax all sorts of “sin” products 5)Broaden the Medicare tax base…

…would be Used for Good and the System would be Fixed—a venial sin at the most.) The fact that Geithner/Summers and PBandit/Lewis are “haggling over the price” means there is…