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Showing posts with label tax policy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tax policy. Show all posts
Monday, March 30, 2020

Tax Justice and Modern Monetary Theory – A Guide — Yves Smith

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Yves Smith: I think Modern Monetary Theory proponents have made acceptance of their ideas a bit more difficult by not drawing a bright ...
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Monday, March 9, 2020

Modern Monetary Theory and the Changing Role of Tax in Society — Richard Murphy

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I have a new peer-reviewed journal paper out this morning on a theme many on this blog might be interested in. Tax Research UK Modern M...
Wednesday, January 22, 2020

Bill Mitchell — Tax the rich to counter carbon emissions not to get their money

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Tax the rich! That has become a misguided progressive Left mantra. The intention is to maintain public services including health, education...
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Monday, October 7, 2019

Lars P. Syll — Knut Wicksell’s principle of just taxation

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Tax away economic rents accruing from finance, monopoly and monopsony, land, and natural resources. Lars P. Syll’s Blog Knut Wicksell’s pr...

From modern monetary theory to modern taxation theory: a debate to be had — Richard Murphy

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I am aware that almost anything written on modern monetary theory appears to be contentious, and that there are those who to seek to belitt...
Tuesday, May 14, 2019

Robert Reich Why We Need a Wealth Tax — Robert Reich Why We Need a Wealth Tax

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A wealth tax is not needed to "pay for" anything, since the US funds itself directly using currency issuance. That is, the US is a...
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Sunday, February 17, 2019

Zero Hedge — New Study Exposes How 21st Century Capitalists Game The US Tax System

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Pass-through. Researchers explained the evolution of the top .01%: Reagan-era tax reforms increased tax liabilities for businesses and red...
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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

J. Barkley Rosser — How To Go After The US Wealthy Reagan Style

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Ah yes, this is going to be another one of those ironic posts about what a big leftist liberal Ronald Reagan was compared to the current GO...
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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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Monday, February 4, 2019

Scott Baker, Lorenz Kueng, Leslie McGranahan, Brian T. Melzer — The interaction of household finances and unconventional fiscal policy

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The period of low demand and low interest rates during the Great Recession has prompted economists to consider new policies to stabilise th...
Thursday, January 17, 2019

Eliza Reiman — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slams 'far-right former governor' Scott Walker after he mischaracterizes ...

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slammed former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's simplification of her proposal to hike taxes on the super-r...
Tuesday, February 20, 2018

Bill Mitchell — The ‘tax the rich’ call bestows unwarranted importance on them

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Bill answers the main questions about MMT and a progressive agenda to address wealth inequality. There is no need for a currency issuer...
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Sunday, April 30, 2017

Brian Beutler — Trump’s Desperation Is Exposing His Deep Ignorance [Tax Plan]

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His plan for a corporate tax cut probably won't work, even with full Republican support, because he doesn't know the rules in Congr...
Monday, February 13, 2017

Justin Fox — Voters Don't Like Cutting Corporate Taxes

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The overall message here for elected officials would seem to be: Tread warily when cutting corporate tax rates.... Bloomberg View Voters D...
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Monday, August 1, 2016

Jon Perr — Trump Pushes $7 Billion Estate Tax Giveaway for His Kids

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This is the standard GOP policy of repealing "the death tax." PERRspectives Trump Pushes $7 Billion Estate Tax Giveaway for His Ki...
Friday, April 22, 2016

So what else is new?

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Harris&Ewing Less taxes, more jobs, US Chamber of Commerce campaign 1939 ht Raúl Ilargi Meijer atThe Automatic Earth
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Monday, January 18, 2016

Peter Cooper — Two Ways to Drive Currency Acceptance through Taxes

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Here are two – of many possible – approaches to driving currency acceptance. Both assume property rights are enforced by the state. The cho...
Friday, July 24, 2015

Jared Bernstein — We are definitely not Greece! But if we do this we could get a little bit closer…

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Yes, the US can become like Greece — voluntarily, through stupidity. No, it's not choosing to default on the national debt either, and...