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The super-rich have received round after round of tax cuts and special tax breaks, easy credits from central banks, and exceptional gains from technologies that are boosting profits while
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unskilled workers’ wages.
We must end the current practice of blindly
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taxes, creating loopholes that allow legal tax avoidance, and offering tax credits that have little effect on investment and job creation.
Reducing tax expenditures while
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marginal tax rates can produce substantial revenue by increasing the level of taxable income.
Longer maturities leave more time for adjustment,
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the risk of a confidence shock.
Yet the current international standard for breaking up a country is arguably less demanding than a vote for
lowering
the drinking age.
But any gains from lower taxes are more than offset by the losses to the private sector, which, facing higher financing costs, will invest less, in turn
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economic growth – and thus reducing government revenues.
The fifth option is to tighten fiscal policy and reduce budget deficits with the aim of
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the high interest rates that drive the inflows.
So, when confronted with a growth slowdown caused by structural factors, many countries responded by
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interest rates and stimulating credit.
It is against this background that the euro was born, with the goal of boosting European economies by expanding their “local” market,
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transaction costs, and facilitating the flow of information.
But many Europeans’ sunny view of the region has yielded to
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clouds of pessimism.
So, no matter how large a weight we place on their happiness relative to the happiness of others – whether we regard them as praiseworthy captains of industry who merit their high positions, or as parasitic thieves – we simply cannot do anything to affect it by raising or
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their tax rates.
For example, if evidence of future economic strength makes a government worry about economic overheating and inflation, it might try to cool domestic demand by raising taxes and
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government spending.
And when a foreign firm acquires a US company, it pays US tax on the profits earned in the US but not on the profits earned by that firm’s other foreign subsidiaries, thus
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its total tax bill.
A review of industrial concentration is warranted, as is a major government effort to foster SME growth in new ventures by offering incentives, ensuring access to capital, and
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barriers to market entry.
For example, the belief that fiscal austerity raises income, rather than
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it, even in the short run, was a mistake, as was the refusal in 2010 to write down the debt.
Lowering
the birth rate lowers the overall dependency ratio – though at the risk of future labor shortages, weaker consumer spending, and reduced productivity.
Surging oil prices would also threaten Europe and other major oil-importing countries, including China, India, Japan, and South Korea, thereby
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or reversing their economic growth.
For starters, by
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trade and investment barriers, globalization has created a sort of winner-take-all environment, in which the most technologically advanced actors have gained market share through economies of scale.
There is talk now of another maturity extension and a further
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of interest rates for Greece.
Obama and the Republicans agreed to continue those tax cuts for at least two years (they will now probably continue beyond that), thereby
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tax revenue by $350 billion this year and again in 2012.
Creating a structure for mutual prosperity requires
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regional and transnational barriers to facilitate the flow of goods and promote people-to-people interactions.
If a single event affects a significant portion of the population, not only will demand for social support grow too rapidly for the government to absorb, but the shock may decrease government revenues at the same time by, for example,
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tax or export revenues.
Even that understates the impact of energy on measured inflation, because lower gasoline prices reduce shipping costs,
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a wide range of prices.
But, given time, people can and do respond by
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their consumption of oil.
In Pakistan’s Punjab Province, over-pumping is
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the water table by up to a half-meter (20 inches) per year, threatening future food and water security and making thirsty crops like sugarcane and rice tougher to grow.
(Many European governments currently have “cash-for-clunker” schemes that buy and destroy old cars; a cash-for-gas-engines scheme would make more sense by
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costs and conserving the many car bodies that still work fine.)
As Asians drive growth toward more sustainable patterns, they will increase the incentives for others to do so by generating new technology,
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the environmental cost of growth, and undercutting the argument that leadership incurs competitive and other economic costs, but few benefits.
China has adopted some policies to reduce its trade surplus, such as
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import tariffs, withdrawing tax rebates for exported goods, and gradual exchange-rate appreciation.
But most accession countries have already achieved substantial progress in
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inflation and nominal interest rates.
The number of reported hate crimes since the referendum has soared by 500%, amid a
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mood of social, political, and economic uncertainty and discontent.
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