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For example, an increase in direct taxes, such as income tax, can reduce consumption by twice as much as energy and carbon taxes that raise the same amount of revenue.
Energy and carbon taxes can raise revenue while leaving the economy in a stronger state to sustain a recovery.
Conventional taxes raise revenue, but pose a much greater risk of depressing growth in the process.
This is not the only reason why looking more closely at energy and carbon taxes makes sense.
The gains from avoiding the negative impact of conventional taxes work across the economy, particularly as the least well-off maintain a higher level of disposable household income.
Most energy and carbon taxes are levied by national governments.
In terms of the effect on GDP and jobs, the cost of increasing revenue from this source would be as much as one-third less than that of raising the same amount via income taxes or VAT.
Energy and carbon taxes can produce less economic pain and more gain than conventional taxes can.
Greater reliance should be placed on energy taxes and an effective ETS to deliver all three.
Likewise, traditional markets and street stalls pay no sales taxes.
In Denmark, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, and Portugal, concerns about immigration, chronic unemployment, high taxes, and deteriorating public services have fuelled this trend.
Conservatives demand lower taxes, but this is unpopular: almost 65% of Swedes live on public salaries or social transfers.
Unlike other Europeans, Swedes are thus much keener to keep taxes high, which guarantees a large left-wing vote.
The likelihood that Trump will ease regulations and cut taxes has pumped oxygen into US markets, and many business leaders are confident that economic growth is on the horizon.
Democratic politicians should respond by imposing higher taxes on the wealthy and spending the proceeds on the less well off.
This intuition is formalized in a well-known paper in political economy by Allan Meltzer and Scott Richard: the wider the income gap between the median and average voter, the higher the taxes and the greater the redistribution.
The progressivity of income taxes has decreased, reliance on regressive consumption taxes has increased, and the taxation of capital has followed a global race to the bottom.
Do peer-to-peer businesses undercut incumbents by not paying similar taxes?
Investors were initially giddy about Trump’s promises of fiscal stimulus, deregulation of energy, health care, and financial services, and steep cuts in corporate, personal, estate, and capital-gains taxes.
As Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush showed, Republicans can rarely resist the temptation to cut corporate, income, and other taxes, even when they have no way to make up for the lost revenue and no desire to cut spending.
To be sure, expectations of stimulus, lower taxes, and deregulation could still boost the economy and the market’s performance in the short term.
George W. Bush’s idea of economic policy was to cut taxes three times while boosting spending on war.
This will include ending the war in Iraq, raising taxes on the rich, and also gradually phasing in new consumption taxes.
The US currently collects the lowest ratio of taxes to national income among rich nations.
They are unperturbed by the fact that the same legislation will, when it is fully implemented, lead to an increase in taxes for the majority of the middle class – a group whose fortunes have been in decline for the last 30 years or so.
After all, it lowers taxes on real-estate speculation – an activity that has produced sustainable prosperity nowhere, but has contributed to rising inequality everywhere.
It is therefore a good time to introduce carbon taxes, so that the oil windfall is not simply gobbled up at the gas station.
Former Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush also each cut taxes sharply, resulting in budget deficits that prompted the Fed to raise interest rates.
That includes raising taxes on those earning more than $250,000 a year, and using the money to extend health insurance to the tens of millions of Americans who – uniquely for an industrialized nation – do not have it.
The way to achieve these goals is not to run larger deficits, which merely imply higher taxes tomorrow, but to cut spending in other parts of the budget.
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