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Tea party appetizer: “Our Troubling Tax System”
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Tea party appetizer: “Our Troubling Tax System” posted at 8:50 pm on April 14, 2009 by Allahpundit Send to a Friend | Share on Facebook | printer-friendly No crudités or finger sandwiches for this party; just raw red meat, still on the bone, courtesy of the Cato Institute. Consider it a companion piece to Reason TV’s “unpatriotic” critique last week of our progressive income tax, a point echoed in yesterday’s Journal by Ari Fleischer : According to the CBO, those who made less than $44,300 in 2001 — 60% of the country — paid a paltry 3.3% of all income taxes. By 2005, almost all of them were excused from paying any ...
The Insanely Complex Tax Code
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Cato put out a video:
Why can we not harness some of the anti-tax energy out there into a coherent campaign for tax simplification: an end to loopholes, shelters and deductions, and a much simpler, more transparent tax code? That is surely a way in which the right can appeal again to the center. ...
French Economist Argues for 80% Tax Rate, Part 3
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Wednesday, April 15, 2009 [image] French Economist Argues for 80% Tax Rate, Part 3 [ Veronique de Rugy ] Over at the Economist.com, French economist Thomas Piketty and Cato Institute's Chris Edwards just filed their concluding remarks about whether or not it is a good idea to soak the rich (for my previous comments on the debate go here and here ). Here is a summary of Piketty's position, so far: It is time to impose an 80-percent marginal tax rate on all income above 1 million. But it's not because we need the revenue. In fact, Piketty acknowledges that it will probably not bring any new revenue. Rather, the only purpose of ...
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