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What To Do About Income Inequality?2 comments

Filip Spagnoli wrote 2 days ago: one nation ... indivisible, a cartoon about quality of education by social class (source, more Herbl … more →

Tags: Economics, Equality, Justice, poverty, Work, Death Tax, Flat Tax, Income Inequality, Public Spending

What We Need

justabovesunset wrote 6 days ago: On Wednesday, December 16, it was hard to see that there was anything else to talk about but Joe Lie … more →

Tags: Healthcare Reform, social safety-net, Disappearing Middle Class, Eric Cantor, French healthcare system, Income Inequality, Joe Lieberman, Schwarzenegger on Palin, Shatner-Limbaugh

Income and Tax Redistribution

ittecon wrote 1 month ago: This is a good article discussing tax redistribution and income inequality from 2000 to 2007. Notice … more →

Tags: Policy Issues, Economics, Regressive Taxation, Income Redistribution, Current Events, Tax Policy, Income Distribution

Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics (14): Leaving Out Relevant Explanatory Variables1 comment

Filip Spagnoli wrote 2 months ago: Another installment in our ongoing series on mistakes and fraud in statistics. Here’s a graph … more →

Tags: Justice, statistics, Lies and Statistics, Taxation, Fairness, Politics, Economics, lies, trickle down economics

In Which I Call for Lower Taxes (Sort Of)4 comments

Nate Nelson wrote 2 months ago: Jobs. Unless things drastically change, “jobs” will become the defining word for both th … more →

Tags: Politics, 2010, Unemployment, underemployment, Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the house, 2012, Value Added Tax, consumption tax

Ecological citizens: do they exist?

parker62 wrote 2 months ago: The basic principles of a theoretical ‘ecological citizenship,’ as sketched out by Andrew Dobson, we … more →

Tags: David, Social Justice, sustainability, Andrew Dobson, low growth scenarios, no growth scenarios, ecological citizenship, ecological citizens, Sverker Jagers

Cass Sunstein: Regulatory Czar2 comments

Bevan Sabo wrote 3 months ago: Our new unelected, unconfirmed, unaccountable, and unconstitutional Regulatory Czar is Cass Sunstein … more →

Tags: Ayn Rand, Individual Rights, Politics, Property Rights, Tax, capitalism, taxes, free market, Barack Obama

Perverse Incentives

Bevan Sabo wrote 3 months ago: Today, I learned of an excellent real-life example of perverse incentives. One of my younger sibling … more →

Tags: Economics, Random Thought, Welfare, Taxation, tax code, perverse incentives, economic incentives

Human Rights Cartoon (140): Taxation and Public Spending

Filip Spagnoli wrote 3 months ago: (source) Read more on taxation, public spending and inequality, on progressive taxation, and on home … more →

Tags: housing, human rights cartoon, poverty, Cartoon, cartoons, Homelessness, inequality, Public Spending, Taxation

More Negative Effects of Progressive Taxation

Bevan Sabo wrote 3 months ago: Joseph Henchman of the Tax Foundation discusses Britain’s rising tax rates on the wealthy: In … more →

Tags: Economics, Tax, Britain, David Beckham, England, Great Britain, Joseph Henchman, Manchester United, Real Madrid

Punishing Success

Bevan Sabo wrote 4 months ago: From The Tax Foundation Policy Blog: Newly released data from the IRS clearly debunks the convention … more →

Tags: Individual Rights, Tax, Tax Foundation, Taxation, I.R.S., Federal Income Tax, federal income taxes, Federal Tax, income tax income taxes

The Failure of "Trickle Down Economics"6 comments

Filip Spagnoli wrote 4 months ago: (source) Trickle Down Economics, also called Reaganomics (due to its association with the policies o … more →

Tags: poverty, US, Taxation, Redistribution, trickle-down, Economics, spreading the wealth around, trickle down economics, Supply side economics

Abdu'l-Baha's 'socialism'9 comments

Sen wrote 6 months ago: I was led to this subject by one of the friends, who commented that the House of Justice’s revenues … more →

Tags: Baha'i Writings, Political Science, Translations, Abdu'l-Baha, Agriculture, Church and State, Education, house of justice, Public Health

"Progressive" deals, saving column inches, "fascism" etc

Aristotle The Geek wrote 6 months ago: Praful Bidwai wants a “new deal” for India. He wants to “progressively” tax … more →

Tags: Politics, Economics, censorship, Socialism, China, Times of India, Praful Bidwai, New Deal, redistributive justice

Charles Krauthammer is blind to his irony2 comments

Josh wrote 6 months ago: Charles Krauthammer’s May 29, 2009 column is full of irony, but I am not sure that he sees it. … more →

Tags: Equality, Charles Krauthammer, Republican Hypocrisy, Sonia Sotomayor, Frank Ricci, empathy, Judicial Nominations, social safety-net

Human Rights, Income Inequality, and Progressive Taxation8 comments

Filip Spagnoli wrote 6 months ago: (source) Yes, I know… another post (and a long one) on income inequality, something which isn … more →

Tags: Equality, Economics, Flat Tax, Human Rights, Income Inequality, Justice, Taxation

Progressive taxation - good for the economy, for society, and for the environment

wellsharp wrote 6 months ago: In a paper that has been around since 2004, and that has not attracted, in my opinion, anywhere near … more →

Tags: barry, Aotearoa New Zealand, Economic Analysis, sustainability, Robert H. Franks, Are positional goods different?, Positional externalities, ecological effects of taxation

I Just Can't Let It Go: The Lameness That Is Republican Tax Plans

didionsmommy wrote 8 months ago: Barry Goldwater-esque republicanism requires very low taxes and very small government. Taxes should … more →

Tags: Politics, Author - didionsmommy, Economics, Republican Party, Barry Goldwater, conservatism, Delusional Congressional Republicans, Flat Tax, House Republican Budget Alternative

Progressive Retail Taxation - Antidote to Big Box Dominance

highboldtage wrote 9 months ago: Progressive Retail Taxation – Antidote to Big Box Dominance Let’s tax retail businesses … more →

Tags: Eureka, 95501, Humboldt County, eureka city council, Larry Glass, frank jager, Big Box, jeff leonard, virginia bass


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