Can Tax Rate Increases Spur Economic Development?
During the Great Depression and the period leading up to it, the tax rate of the highest personal earned income tax bracket (“highest tax bracket rate”) was 25%, 10 percentage-points lower than the...
View ArticleWhat Happens When The Soldiers Return?
If we cut funds to government spending and cut tax rates, what happens when the U.S. finally wraps up activities in Afghanistan? Program funding will be reduced, but, we’ll no longer be spending...
View ArticleGetting Ahead By Reading Into Conspiracy Theories
Regardless of whether conspiracy theories are true, a wise person acknowledges where certain patterns will lead on a long term basis and adjusts her plans and goals accordingly. For example, a...
View ArticleLessons From NPR’s Videogate
Several lessons can be learned from the recent controversy involving NPR’s Ron Schiller and James O’Keefe’s organization, The Project Veritas (“the video-gate controversy”). First, perform appropriate...
View ArticleCan Raising Taxes Improve The Economy?
In an earlier post, we considered whether tax rate increases can spur economic development from a historical vantage point. From a conceptual vantage point, it is also evident that tax rate increases...
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The government charges its citizens to improve and install infrastructure through taxes. When government services and infrastructure are privatized, citizens pay twice, through taxes and tolls.
View ArticleAn Equitable Tax Policy
An equitable approach to taxation would be for people owning 40% of the wealth to pay 40% of the taxes, and those owning 1:1 millionth of the wealth to be responsible for 1:1 millionth of the taxes....
View ArticleCan Tax Rate Increases Spur Economic Development?
During the Great Depression and the period leading up to it, the tax rate of the highest personal earned income tax bracket (“highest tax bracket rate”) was 25%, 10 percentage-points lower than the...
View ArticleCan Raising Taxes Improve The Economy?
In an earlier post, we considered whether tax rate increases can spur economic development from a historical vantage point. From a conceptual vantage point, it is also evident that tax rate increases...
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