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How to Help the Poor Without Taxing the Rich
In his latest New York Times column, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities fellow Jared Bernstein made the baseless claim that “to lift the poor, you can’t avoid taxing the rich.” Bernstein not only...
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Poverty's Grip on California is Man-Made
New York Times reporter Jennifer Medina told a heart-wrenching story of Mary Carmen Acosta and her husband Sebastian Plancarte, who lost their jobs and their home and now make their living east of Los...
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The Financial Times Is Blowing Piketty's Data Issues Out Of Proportion, Part One
This article originally appeared in Forbes on May 28, 2014.On Friday, the Financial Timespublished allegations by its economics editor Chris Giles that Thomas Piketty’s wealth inequality data in his...
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NHL Finalists Envy NBA Tax Savings
After exciting games this weekend, the NBA and NHL championship series matchups are set. The Miami Heat look to defend their title against the San Antonio Spurs in a rematch of last year’s Finals. The...
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An Even Larger Headache Than Taxes for Small Businesses
What is the biggest challenge faced by small businesses today? Surprisingly the answer is not high taxes—it is professional licensing requirements. Thumbtack, a business services firm, in partnership...
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California’s Job-Killing Tax on Talent
Teaser: Next session the California state legislature plans to raise corporate taxes on companies with high CEO pay. The proposed bill would increase taxes on companies that pay executives more than...
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Piketty's Cure for Income Inequality Hurts the Poor
Teaser: Thomas Piketty’s best-selling “Capital in the Twenty-First Century” has given policy makers and pundits a renewed excuse to call for the redistribution of wealth and higher taxes. But it is...
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Drivers Should Pay For the Roads They Use
Teaser: The Highway Trust Fund, which has a projected 10-year deficit of $172 billion, is due to run low in July, and if nothing is done the administration will have to reduce funding for states for...
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How to Stop Corporate Inversions and Make U.S. Businesses More Competitive
Teaser: To stop corporate inversions, the United States needs corporate tax reform modeled off recent reform in the United Kingdom.The food fight over corporate inversions – whereby a U.S. company...
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Tax Inversions Help, Not Hurt, the Economy
Teaser: Tax inversions can result in a greater flow of income into the United States. A company such as Medtronic, which is in the process of inverting , can expand its American operations at lower...
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Texas Economy Makes Rick Perry a Lefty Target
Teaser: Perry has demonstrated that states grow with less, not more, government. That outcome by itself suggests that the left's efforts to destroy Rick Perry will not carry over to destroying the...
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Another Indictment of U.S. Corporate Taxes
Teaser: In their new release, the "2014 International Tax Competitiveness Index," Kyle Pomerleau and Andrew Lundeen of the Tax Foundation provide a holistic view of the 34 OECD countries' business tax...
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Women, Get Real: Here’s the New Feminists’ Manifesto
Teaser: This week marks the launch of Lean Together, a 221-page book that presents an economic agenda for women’s advancement. Hadley Heath Manning, IWF’s director of health policy, said: “The...
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No, the Rich Are Not Taking All of the Economic Pie
Teaser: Let’s stipulate that income inequality is at staggering levels in the U.S., and that income concentration at the top has probably risen (probably). But is it true that the rich have “devoured...
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Don't Be Fooled, the Internet Is Already Taxed
Teaser: Many people think that when the Internet Tax Freedom Act (ITFA) expires on December 11, this will open the door for the first time to the taxation of the Internet. Wrong. The Internet is...
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The Simple Economics of Income Inequality
Teaser: The real danger from focusing on inequality is that it leads to a static view of the economy. The only way to benefit people in the long run is to focus on economic growth, and paying attention...
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The Modern Welfare State’s False Allure
Teaser: The modern welfare state uses its tax revenue to finance a redistribution of income and wealth. The beneficiaries of this redistribution have ample reason to vote for more of the same, thus...
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World Leaders, Ignore Obama and Do These Five Things Instead
Teaser: World leaders, beware: President Obama’s political loss last week is not preventing him from proffering economic advice on his travels to China and Australia this week. Rather than following...
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Tax Reform Can Drive Growth In Maryland and Massachusetts
Teaser: Maryland and Massachusetts both have lower GDP growth and higher unemployment rates than the U.S. average. Voters in both states elected Republican governors who ran on platforms of economic...
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This Tax Change Could Keep Your Business Alive After Your Death
Teaser: As 2014 draws to a close, many people are thinking of tax planning strategies. Some might donate to charity, others might choose to pay state taxes early. One novel idea that has just been...
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