18 expert panelists on GAO report on cap and trade versus carbon taxes. Joseph Aldy, Resources for the Future James Edmonds, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Richard Howarth, Dartmouth College Bruce…

This is a chart of your data on personal taxes as a share of personal income. See what I mean by how stable it has been until recent years….

…simply because real GDP growth has been strong since the passage of the 2003 tax cut, the cause of this growth must have been the tax cut. Mixed within this…

…Social Security taxes have been raised more than 40 times since the program began. 8. The maximum original Social Security tax was just $60. Today it is $11,000. 9. In…

…near the middle of the income distribution pay almost twice as much in payroll taxes as in income taxes. Yet people were willing to accept a regressive tax increase to…

…efforts, and loaded up on pork-barrel spending. Meanwhile, taxes were reduced—on wage earners, investors, and companies. The end result: We collected about the same amount of taxes in fiscal 2004…

…of the income tax. In other words, if everyone’s income falls by 10 percent, the overall percentage of taxes paid by the wealthy falls, because they pay a higher marginal…

…pay almost twice as much in payroll taxes as in income taxes. Yet people were willing to accept a regressive tax increase to sustain Social Security. Now the joke’s on…

…incomes, 80% and 20% respectively. Then we see that the income of each is divided into the categories of national accounts (consumption, taxes, saving and imports). All but consumption are…

Trump Says Dems Support Venezuelan “High Taxes And Open Borders” The average tax rate in Venezuela is 25%. The average tax rate in the US is 26%. Sorry, Trump, this…