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Exploring US Taxation
In the discussion of taxes few Republicans get beyond the “Teabag” stage. A conservative libertarian who does is Bruce Bartlett, whose book on Bush, early on blew the whistle on what was happening to America.
Last week at Forbes.com, he compared U.S. taxes to those in foreign countries and found that ours are relatively low. The anti-tax crowd universally denounced this analysis on the grounds that why should we care if foreigners are even more overtaxed than we are.
This week he looked at the effective tax rate on the median family income. He showed that taxes are at a historically low level. Furthermore, polls show a historically low level of dissatisfaction with taxes. He concluded that the tax protestors lack the credibility to be taken seriously.
Those libertarians who live in the real world, and don’t imagine we can simply dispense with all taxes, might find this data useful. We need to strive toward an equitable (fair) tax system at the same time attempting to prevent the Empire from further bankrupting itself with the foreign/military policies espoused by the Bush and Obama regimes, along with their domestic welfare policies as well.
- Holy cow!! by Lester Hunt (April 17, 2009 at 11:13 PM)
- Re: Holy cow!! by Rick Croley (April 18, 2009 at 4:53 PM)
- And another thing... by Lester Hunt (April 17, 2009 at 11:30 PM)
- fair? by Jeremy (April 18, 2009 at 10:13 AM)
- Representation/Fair by William Marina (April 18, 2009 at 11:01 AM)
- Re: Representation/Fair by Rick Croley (April 18, 2009 at 4:45 PM)
- Re: Representation/Fair by William Marina (April 21, 2009 at 6:58 AM)
- Re: Representation/Fair by Rick Croley (April 18, 2009 at 4:45 PM)
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