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Showing posts with label progressive taxation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label progressive taxation. Show all posts
Friday, February 15, 2019

Dean Baker — MMT and Taxing the Rich

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Dean Baker looks at offsets. He doesn't see "taxing the rich" as a good offset. I don't think MMT economists do eithe...
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Wednesday, February 6, 2019

Steve Randy Waldman — The opportunity cost of firm payouts

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A lot of left-ish proposals these days, including high marginal tax rates at high incomes and bans on share buybacks, are about increasing ...
Tuesday, February 5, 2019

Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman — How would a progressive wealth tax work? Evidence from the economics literature

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Senator Elizabeth Warren recently proposed a new wealth tax on the richest Americans. Though the United States does not have a wealth tax, ...
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Friday, October 27, 2017

IMF Worried that High Inequality Could Threaten Global Capitalism — Sharmini Peries interviews Michael Roberts

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MICHAEL ROBERTS: I think the IMF, and that clip shows it, is worried that the huge increase in inequality of income and wealth in many coun...
Tuesday, November 22, 2016

How Taxes Were Shifted Off Real Estate — Sharmini Peries interviews Michael Hudson

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Video and transcript. Michael Hudson How Taxes Were Shifted Off Real Estate Sharmini Peries interviews Michael Hudson
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Thursday, October 29, 2015

Fabian Kindermann and Dirk Krueger — High Marginal Tax Rates on the Top 1%? Lessons from a Life Cycle Model with Idiosyncratic Income Risk

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Abstract This paper argues that high marginal labor income tax rates are an effective tool for social insurance even when households have...
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Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Henry J. Aaron — Can taxing the rich reduce inequality? You bet it can!

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Two recently posted papers by Brookings colleagues purport to show that “even a large increase in the top marginal rate would barely reduce...
Monday, October 5, 2015

John Quiggin — Would a significant increase in the top (US) marginal income tax rate substantially alter income inequality?

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Yes. At the tails. It’s obvious, as the authors note, that the 90-50 measure won’t change, since neither group is affected (there’s no s...
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Sunday, July 26, 2015

teleSUR — Ecuador's President Correa Warns of Further Destabilization

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The South American country has recently been witness to often-violent protests by opposition forces, who are demanding that Correa’s govern...
Saturday, July 18, 2015

Reddit — Member of the 1% Shocks Reddit: ‘I’m Voting for Bernie Sanders. Here’s Why’

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Michael Hudson has argued this for years.  Taxing rent would be economically beneficial for growth and better for everyone. The !% would s...
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Saturday, June 13, 2015

David Cay Johnson — The top .001 percent are different from you and me

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Warning: Obscene material. User discretion advised. You may become enraged. It's even worse than you imagined. Al Jazeera America The t...
Sunday, March 1, 2015

Yuriko Koike — Thomas Piketty’s Japanese Tour

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Six months after Thomas Piketty's book Capital in the Twenty-First Century generated so much buzz in the United States and Europe, it ...
Saturday, January 17, 2015

Robert Waldmann — Obama’s Populist Tax Reform Proposal

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Barack Obama has released the details of a fairly radical proposal to increase tax progressivity which he will make in his state of the uni...
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Saturday, November 8, 2014

Ben Walsh — Economists Say We Should Tax The Rich At 90 Percent

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All Americans, including the rich, would be better off if top tax rates went back to Eisenhower-era levels when the top federal income tax ...
Monday, October 20, 2014

David F. Ruccio — Piketty and the principle of taxation

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As it turns out, while working on a new research project (on “Utopia and the Marxian Critique of Political Economy,” for a conference in No...
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Thursday, June 12, 2014

Mark Thoma — Why income redistribution doesn't hurt growth

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Thomas Piketty's book " Capital in the Twenty-First Century " documents the increase in inequality in recent decades, and it...
Saturday, April 19, 2014

Steve Roth — Lane Kenworthy, Prosperity, and the Infinite Forms of “Redistribution”

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Which brings me to another recent paper (prominently citing the previous one), that questions the Left’s rhetorical emphasis on (in)equalit...
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Saturday, October 12, 2013

AFP — International Monetary Fund strongly suggests countries tax the rich to fix deficit

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Tax the rich and better target the multinationals: The IMF has set off shockwaves this week in Washington by suggesting countries fight bud...
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Thursday, August 8, 2013

Jullian Berman — The Rich Are Hoarding Cash And It's Making Us A Lot Worse Off: Experts

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America's top 1 percent saved their money at a rate of 37 percent last quarter, according to a recent survey from American Express Publ...
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Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Mark Gongloff — The 1 Chart That Reveals Just How Grossly Unfair The U.S. Tax System Has Become

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The Huffington Post The 1 Chart That Reveals Just How Grossly Unfair The U.S. Tax System Has Become Mark Gongloff