All Posts Tagged With: "tax reform"
Sales, Flat, or Spherical, Tax Reform Isn’t the Answer
Lately there has been a flurry of interest in tax reform, typically aimed at making compliance less onerous, removing the incentive for special-interest lobbying, and reducing the size and intrusiveness of the tax-collection agency. While few people will reject those ends, that does not imply that the attempt to achieve them is the optimal use [...]
1Nov2006 | Gene Callahan | 13 comments | ContinuedScandinavian Irony: Socialism Meets Liberalization
Scandinavia is in the midst of an economic transformation. Thanks to tax reform, openness to investment/trade, sound property rights, little corruption, and continuing efforts to privatize, economies there have made great strides toward liberalization. Denmark, Finland, Iceland, and Sweden have been rated “free” economies by the Heritage Foundation’s 2006 Index of Economic Freedom (online at [...]
1Sep2006 | Sara F. Cooper | 22 comments | ContinuedIf Americans Really Understood the Income Tax: Uncovering Our Most Expensive Ignorance
At first glance, John O. Fox’s book on the income tax, which has a dust jacket featuring the U.S. Capitol and a magnifying glass focusing on a 1040 form, promised to be a hard-hitting critique. I was eager to read what I hoped would be an insightful and penetrating analysis of taxation by a tax [...]
1Jul2002 | Murray Sabrin | 0 comments | ContinuedThose Dirty Rotten Taxes: Tax Revolts that Built America by Charles Adams
The Free Press • 1998 • 242 pages • $25.00 James Woehlke is counsel and director of technical services for the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants. Nikolaus Woehlke is a freelance writer from Poughkeepsie, New York. IRS reform has been a hot topic in Washington recently. Last spring, more than 80 legislators [...]
1Feb1999 | and James A. Woehlke | 0 comments | ContinuedHigh Plains Drifters: Politicians’ Lucrative Protection Racket
Fred McChesney teaches at Cornell Law School and is the author of Money for Nothing: Politicians, Rent Extraction and Political Extortion (Harvard University Press, 1997). “Politicians are interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs.” —P. J. O’Rourke The idea that politicians sell special favors to special interests [...]
1Jan1998 | Fred S. McChesney | 1 comment | ContinuedTaxing Time
Mr. Bandow, a nationally syndicated columnist, is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the author and editor of several books, including Tripwire: Korea and U.S. Foreign Policy in a Changed World. Income Tax Day is three months past, but only now are Americans finally finished paying for government. The Washington-based Tax Foundation reports [...]
1Jul1997 | Doug Bandow | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Flat Tax: Simplicity Desimplified
Dr. Garrison is professor of economics at Auburn University. He wishes to thank David Laband, Jim Long, and Leland Yeager for helpful comments. In modern American politics, advocating a flat tax is the surest way of labeling yourself as a supply-sider, a Jack Kemp/Steve Forbes Republican. Michael Evans[1] made the case for the flat tax [...]
1Oct1996 | Roger W. Garrison | 1 comment | ContinuedHow High a Price for Civilization?
Mr. Gold is associate director and communications director at the Tax Foundation, a nonprofit research organization in Washington, D.C. In the battle over tax reform, skirmishes over the current level of taxation are inevitable. As in the past, supporters of big government will almost certainly complain that taxpayer advocates only focus on one side of [...]
1Feb1996 | Stephen Gold | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Tax Racket: Government Extortion from A to Z
Every tax levied by government somehow distorts economic decision-making and drains resources away from productive private-sector ventures. As Jean-Baptiste Say succinctly observed in his Treatise on Political Economy, “Taxes and restrictive measures never can be a benefit: they are at best a necessary evil. . . .” Living in a misguided century, where big government [...]
1Jan1996 | Raymond J. Keating | 0 comments | Continued-
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