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Comment on Some Thoughts on Romney’s Income by Chris

Chris — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:40:16 +0000

Maybe rich people don’t keep their money under giant mattresses because no one makes giant mattresses. There’s a business idea for ya… But seriously, I think there’s a lot of legitimacy to your point, it needs all the pub it can get.

Comment on Comparative Taxes, France Edition by Capitalism’s golden age v a lost 30 years – great infographic « Củ Mì

Capitalism’s golden age v a lost 30 years – great infographic « Củ Mì — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 16:36:59 +0000

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Comment on Tax credits are government spending by My FY2010 Tax Breaks | Increase Our Taxes

My FY2010 Tax Breaks | Increase Our Taxes — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 17:19:49 +0000

[...] of thumb, I feel that the government uses the tax code way too much to achieve spending goals, and I do not think subsidizing movers is a worthwhile spending goal. I’m all for labor mobility, but I find it hard to believe that taking 10-35% off the cost [...]

Comment on Our corporate taxes are a game: further proof by Corporate Tax Counter-revolt in Britain | Increase Our Taxes

Corporate Tax Counter-revolt in Britain | Increase Our Taxes — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 23:11:00 +0000

[...] through lower corporate taxes. Just like here, the biggest and most adept British multinationals pay little to no taxes because they have become experts at evading the tax code (usually through loopholes they helped create). But Britains aren’t taking these new laws [...]

Comment on G.E.: the best tax law firm or the biggest crook? by The Submerged State | Increase Our Taxes

The Submerged State | Increase Our Taxes — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 22:58:51 +0000

[...] Policies Undermine American Democracy. Its first point (the one not about democracy) is a subject I have mentioned here before: the American government is much bigger than you think because it uses the tax code to [...]

Comment on Is reforming our tax code a good idea? by Jacie

Jacie — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 04:01:39 +0000

Articles like these put the consumer in the driver seat-very imopnrtat.

Comment on Bruce Bartlett talks to The Economist by Rhon Keinigs

Rhon Keinigs — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 10:30:06 +0000

Dear Mr. Bartlett,

All I can say is, thank you for being so reasonable. If only more republicans would listen to you! They still think it is 1980. Unfortunately, they probably don’t read the Economist.

Rhon Keinigs

Comment on Some Funny Taxes by Ira H

Ira H — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 15:06:25 +0000

The New York bagel tax is BLATANTLY anti-semitic. The ADL should be all over that.

Comment on I just solved the budget deficit by Zack

Zack — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 00:38:59 +0000

Well you’re right in that it’s an algebraic identity: $X less to subsidies for food means $X more dollars spent on it. But of course life is never so simple. There is never a 1:1 relationship between the cost of inputs and the cost of the final good, i.e. sometimes a company chooses to accept lower profit margins when its costs rise than charge consumers higher prices. If that’s the case here, consumers would not be paying the same amount as the reduction in subsidy.

Moreover, most of what we subsidize, cotton and corn I believe, we can get much cheaper from abroad. For example, we’d all be using sugar ethanol from Brazil to power our cars if corn ethanol weren’t so artificially cheap (and sugar tariffs weren’t high). We could also import cotton from abroad. The surplus left over could be spent on other things: more money for highways, higher education, defense, or lower taxes, you name it.

I’m not an agricultural economist but I can’t imagine what I said above would be too different for agriculture. Generally speaking, subsidies are bad,especially when they favor a very concentrated group of people in a very traditional sector. It’s one thing to subsidize clean energy or rail or education, quite another to subsidize industrial agriculture.

Comment on I just solved the budget deficit by rba

rba — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 20:48:17 +0000

I’ll be frank and say I know next to nothing regarding the politics of agricultural subsidies, but how intractable are they from an economic POV? Won’t it just be an huge jump in cost of food stuffs leaving consumers to pay the same amount elsewhere or will it eventually normalize?