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Monthly Archives: November 2012
Our Enemy, the Payroll Tax
Our Enemy, the Payroll Tax – NYTimes.com.
NYT columnist Ross Douthat makes the case for making the payroll tax holiday (which has been in place now since 2010) permanent…
Spain and Catalonia: The trials of keeping a country together
Spain and Catalonia: The trials of keeping a country together | The Economist.
“Stabilising Spain’s finances without tearing its social fabric apart is being made harder by a new wave of Catalan secessionism.”
None Dare Call It Default
Jenkins: None Dare Call It Default – WSJ.com.
“A nicer term for what’s about to sock the middle class is ‘entitlement reform.'”
IRS Tax Form for Obamacare Individual Mandate
Hat tip to my Baylor colleague, health economist Jim Henderson. It’s interesting that the “pro forma” version of this IRS Tax Form is named “Form OBMA”…
President Kennedy's Plan to Spur the Economy with a Tax Cut (August 13, 1962 Oval Office speech)
From Mark Perry’s Carpe Diem website: “In this video from August 13, 1962, watch President Kennedy as he announces his bold plan to introduce permanent, across-the-board, top-to-bottom tax cuts for both individuals and corporations to help the economy grow and prevent a recession. Kennedy argued that tax reform was “long-needed” because both “logic and equity” demanded tax relief for Americans. Further, Kennedy predicted that the dollars released from taxation would create new jobs, new salaries, and spur economic growth and an expanding American economy, thereby creating more jobs and higher tax revenues. He was exactly right.”]]>
President Kennedy’s Plan to Spur the Economy with a Tax Cut (August 13, 1962 Oval Office speech)
From Mark Perry’s Carpe Diem website: “In this video from August 13, 1962, watch President Kennedy as he announces his bold plan to introduce permanent, across-the-board, top-to-bottom tax cuts for both individuals and corporations to help the economy grow and prevent a recession. Kennedy argued that tax reform was “long-needed” because both “logic and equity” demanded tax relief for Americans. Further, Kennedy predicted that the dollars released from taxation would create new jobs, new salaries, and spur economic growth and an expanding American economy, thereby creating more jobs and higher tax revenues. He was exactly right.”
Friedrich A. Hayek on the "curious task of economics"
Economist Friedrich A. Hayek in “The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism” (1988): “The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.”]]>
Friedrich A. Hayek on the “curious task of economics”
Economist Friedrich A. Hayek in “The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism” (1988):
“The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.”
EconTalk – Cochrane on Health Care
EconTalk – Cochrane on Health Care:
Quoting from the EconTalk summary of this interview: “John Cochrane of the University of Chicago and Stanford University’s Hoover Institution talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about how existing regulations distort the market for health care. Cochrane argues that many of the problems in the health care market would go away if these distortions were removed. In this conversation, he explores how the market for health care might work in the United States without those distortions. He also addresses some of the common arguments against a more choice-oriented, less top-down approach.”