I have just read this article:
The Wall Street Journal The Tax Threat to Prosperity By ARTHUR B. LAFFER January 25, 2008; Page A15
This juicy bit caught mt attention:
"Since 1980, statutory marginal tax rates have fallen dramatically. The highest marginal income tax rate in 1980 was 70%. Today it is 35%. In the year Ronald Reagan took office (1981) the top 1% of income earners paid 17.58% of all federal income taxes. Twenty-five years later, in 2005, the top 1% paid 39.38% of all income taxes."
Good onya, you "rich pricks". The article explains how lowering taxes at the top end has a dramatic effect on the level of avoidance.
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.music.artists.springsteen/browse_thread/thread/0ef1acde5d699b1f/517cd1ec3beb8e22
or
http://tinyurl.com/22v7pk
A great little video on the Laffer Curve:
Hat tip: NZBR (just catching up on reading their "Update" and "Perspectives" emails)
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Part 2 of that is better.
Altho' they fall for The Old Lie that Ireland has done so well because of cuts to corporation tax, there is a brilliant example about how the tax on 'luxury good' (in this case yachts) didn't hurt rich people (who just bought their yachts abroad instead) but made loads of yacht-makers (if that's a word) redundant and the overall impact on tax revenues was negative.
Interesting.
Do you have something similar to the vid on the relation between interest, inflation, gdp, trade deficits etc ?
A good starter for balance of payment theory is at CATO Institute.
The following explains the balance between savings; investment; exports and imports.
http://www.freetrade.org/node/61
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