Friday, October 31, 2008

A Truly Frightening Halloween Candy Bar

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Today is Halloween. It's also the day that parade honoring the Philadelphia Phillies for their World Series Championship is scheduled to...
Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Wealth Redistribution, Socialism, and the Tax Law

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During the past week, the outpouring of "it's socialism" as a response to the proposal to revoke the tax cuts enacted for thos...
Monday, October 27, 2008

Is Tax Noncompliance by The Rich Worse than by the Super-Rich?

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A new study by Prof. Joel B. Slemrod, a University of Michigan business school professor and Andrew Johns of the IRS, The Distribution of In...
Friday, October 24, 2008

Progressive Income Taxation and Socialism

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My post dealing with the charge that letting tax cuts for high income taxpayers expire, Taxes, Bailouts and Socialism , has generated all so...
Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Taxes, Bailouts and Socialism

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When a candidate's tax plan is described as socialist during a presidential campaign, it should turn public attention to the tax policy...
Monday, October 20, 2008

Another D-word and Taxation

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In Children, Toys, Greed, Profits, Gambling, and Lessons from History , I noted that some experts have warned us that if the world's ec...
Friday, October 17, 2008

Taxing Joe the Plumber

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When I discuss the portion of the presidential candidate's debate over taxes with people who are not tax experts, they tell me they are ...
Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Selecting Tax Breaks for Encouraging Investments

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According to a recent report , one of the ideas being batted around Capitol Hill is a proposal to suspending capital gains taxes on securiti...
Monday, October 13, 2008

Children, Toys, Greed, Profits, Gambling, and Lessons from History

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The Reuters headline says it all: "IMF Warns of Financial Meltdown." Or does it? Of course, it does not say it all. It doesn'...
Friday, October 10, 2008

Have Some Tax Pork

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The bailout, excuse me, rescue bill, known as the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, managed to get Congressional approval becaus...
Wednesday, October 08, 2008

The Bailout as Good Solution. Not.

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There's not much to like about the bailout. Before Congress enacted what I called A Financial Crisis Solution That Doesn't Solve th...
Monday, October 06, 2008

A Financial Crisis Solution That Doesn't Solve the Problem

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To say that what Congress did on Friday was disappointing would be an understatement. What Congress did was, and remains, downright dangerou...
Friday, October 03, 2008

Why Vote Aye for Bad Legislation?

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So after the House of Representatives votes down proposed legislation that would give the Secretary of the Treasury $700 billion to use howe...
Wednesday, October 01, 2008

Does It Matter Who or What is to Blame?

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The current economic mess, which many doubt will go away simply because of a $700 billion government bailout of the financial services indus...
Monday, September 29, 2008

Funding the Bailout

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A report from BNA indicates that Peter DeFazio, a member of the House of Representatives from Oregon, suggested that the Congress should im...