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Entries from September 24th, 2011

The Case for Raising Taxes

September 8th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Capitalism, Politics, taxes, Wall Street

For so many years we have been told that tax cuts stimulate the economy that most of us cannot accept the fact that raising taxes will not be counterproductive to expanding the economy. But that is exactly the case. Taxes may influence behavior. If you tax cigarettes or gasoline very heavily, some reduction in consumption [...]

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