Econ Comments
Washington Times | CAIN: Economic crisis requires real tax reform
Half-measures and far-off fixes won’t mend our broken jobs engine.
WSJ | A Short History of the Income Tax
One original sin was the separation of the corporate and personal tax, giving lawyers, accountants and the wealthy a chance to game the system.
Washington Times | RAHN: Obama’s tax falsehoods
President must know his quest to raise taxes will kill jobs.
WSJ | Mr. Buffett's Tax Secrets
The least he can do is show Americans why he pays so little.
Bloomberg | Is Warren Buffett the New Andrew Mellon? Not Quite: Amity Shlaes
Mellon ran the Treasury like a railroad: Taxes were tolls, and the government should set tax rates according to "what the traffic will bear."
Politico | A bipartisan step toward tax reform
Right now, there is over $1 trillion in American businesses’ global earnings trapped overseas by punitive tax rates governing the repatriation of those funds.
Reports
AEI | The Benefits and Limitations of Income Tax Reform
A number of recent proposals have called for broadening the individual income tax base while lowering statutory income tax rates. Such proposals would eliminate or curtail various preferential income tax provisions and use some or all of the resulting revenue to lower statutory tax rates. In this Outlook, we analyze the economic effects of this approach to tax reform.
