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Paying for it is the real obstacle, but that problem can be solved.
Archive for the ‘Taxation’ Category
February 20th, 2009
The horrible idea of replacing the gasoline tax with a vehicle-miles-traveled tax.
February 18th, 2009
Perhaps we can foster both consumption and investment by enacting a progressive consumption tax — to take effect in five years.
March 23rd, 2008
McCain’s tax and health-care proposals ought to help focus progressive attention on November rather than Obama-v.-Clinton sniping.
February 23rd, 2008
Category: Taxation
Germany is getting serious about it. The Swiss banking association seems to think that catching tax cheats is a Nazi policy.
January 20th, 2008
Why CATO loves Georgia.
January 10th, 2008
Category: Taxation
If Huckabee had proposed a program vaguely similar in one respect to his Fair Tax, that completely different program might be a good idea. So no fair criticizing him!
October 18th, 2007
Category: Taxation
Let’s re-pass S-CHIP, with a new financing mechanism: either a surtax on incomes over $500,000 per year, or a tax on private jet travel.
September 4th, 2007
Category: Taxation
Below, Mike O’Hare raises some issues with Mike Graetz’s proposal for tax reform, as interpreted through my abbreviated discussion of it. We agree on one issue, and disagree on on the other.
First, I agree that we ought to axe the mortgage interest deduction entirely. The Oakeshottean in me is queasy with the unpredictable effects of [...]
September 3rd, 2007
Category: Taxation
Steve skewers extending the mortgage income tax deduction down the income scale and applying it to payroll taxes in his recent post, and admires a package with a 25% income tax only on income above $100,000 per family.
I wish first to take another poke at the first idea. Why do we subsidize housing at [...]