Tag: taxation
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Inequality Wars
Greg Mankiw's Blog: Inequality Wars. Quoting Alan Reynolds in the Wall Street Journal. As was well-documented years ago by economists Roger Gordon and Joel Slemrod, a great deal of the apparent increase in reported high incomes has been due to "tax shifting." That is, lower individual tax rates induced thousands of businesses to shift from…
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God’s Politics: Why Jim Wallis Doesn’t Get it Either
[I am away at the General Assembly Council Meetings of the PCUSA with little time to write. So here is a rerun from December 14, 2005. I should also point out that by identifying myself as a theistic evolutionist in my post yesterday, I probably annoyed some of my conservative friends. This article is my…