All Posts Tagged With: "tax credits"
Producing Jobs: Thoughts on Obama’s Plan for Small Businesses
Too many policy boulders are being dropped in the water. One can hardly determine the effects of one before another one is thrown in the pool.
9Feb2010 | Bruce Yandle | 10 comments | ContinuedSchool Choice
The overall quality of primary and secondary education received by white students is nothing to write home about. The very fact that 30 percent of college freshmen require remedial education, at a cost of over $2 billion, is pretty good evidence that there is widespread fraud in the conferring of high-school diplomas. That level of [...]
17Jun2009 | Walter E. Williams | 1 comment | ContinuedUnworthy of the Name
When’s a tax cut not a tax cut? When it’s a targeted tax cut. That is the new euphemism for government’s manipulation of people’s behavior with the tax code. Government can get us to do things in several ways, including decree, subsidy, tax credit, and tax deduction. The last two are particular favorites of the [...]
1May2000 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedFinancing College Tuition: Government Policies and Educational Priorities edited by Marvin H. Kosters
American Enterprise Institute • 1999 • 129 pages • $29.95 cloth; $14.95 paperback Higher education is a prodigious sacred cow in America. Consisting overwhelmingly of institutions that do not have to pass the test of the market and that subsist largely on funds that come directly or indirectly from government, our higher education system grows, [...]
1Mar2000 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | Continued-
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