…in which tax dollars flow directly from provincial governments to doctors and hospitals, from systems like Germany’s in which tax dollars and compulsory premium payments flow first through insurance companies….

…protects the public from food-borne illnesses. It issues nutritional advice and drug labeling guidelines. It polices false medical claims on packaging and in advertisements. It safeguards about one in every…

…There are two tax rates that generate zero tax revenue, percent and 100 percent. And in between, there is some tax rate which generates a maximum, non-zero amount of tax…

…Furthermore, the incentive to avoid taxes and reinvest increases as tax rates increase. Of course, at some point, tax rates get high enough to encourage individuals to reinvest even though…

…We provide the resources at almost no cost–piddling royalties at best. We give layers of tax breaks, including the “percentage depletion allowance” that reduces the taxable income on the theory…

…Tax Research and chair of the American Bar Association’s Tax Section Committee on Consumption Taxes. I never really thought about it, but laws are the means by which we create…

…way tax laws work and the failure of Congress to keep up with the innovations in tax law achieved by creative tax lawyers taking advantage of every discernible loophole or…

…from and lets users increase the payroll tax rate by whatever amount they wish (it’s true we don’t have the functionality to adjust the phase-in rate of tax or benefit…

…following a tax hike and faster economic growth followed a tax reduction. However, that happened when the top marginal tax rate was boosted above 90%. Interestingly enough, though the so-called…

…taxes income, and so reduces people’s use of it in favor of the state. But this model while reasonable enough to explain early medieval taxation where tax, tithes and rent…