…cap would turn SS into welfare by “taxing the rich” for benefits they will not get. Moreover the cost of fixing SS by raising the payroll tax under the current…

I just came across a fellow internet econocrank’s tax proposal, and find it quite interesting — especially its proposed progressive tax on net worth, which echoes the flat tax on…

…an “alternative minimum tax” like, say, the alternative minimum tax). One could replace the deductions by an AMT like provision that taxes are the greater of taxes calculated with the…

…Money.http://www.economist.com/node/16485673 17. Corporate Income Tax as a share of GDP, 1946-2009. http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxfacts/displayafact.cfm?Docid=263 18. Bloomberg. May 13, 2010. U.S. Companies Dodge $60 Billion in Taxes with Global Odyssey. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-05-13/american-companies-dodge-60-bil… 19. Bloomberg….

…tax-funded Medicare benefits. But one of the most noxious forms in which the anti-government, anti-tax screed has thrived is the anti-public servant rhetoric, which suggests that taxes are wasted when…

by Linda Beale crossposted with Ataxingmatter Taxes, Deficits and Elections As we near the fall elections amid a “tea party” surge of anti-government (and hence anti-tax) sentiment, I cannot help…

…which is better than the not the worst tax ever version of the free rider tax. end update 2 There is a tax increase on the rich so that’s something…

…among other entities used) 2003: tax scams developed and marketed by major accounting firm KPMG 2004: US banking assistance to Augusto Pinochet 2006: US taxpayers using tax havens to dodge…

…the Right talking point that poor people don’t pay taxes. In reality poor people pay all kinds of taxes directly and indirectly from sales taxes to property taxes funded via…

…found that a cut in taxes on capital might recoup 17 of the static revenue loss in the first three years and a cut in taxes on labor could recoup…