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If paid equally to all citizens, this would offset the regressive effects that new taxes alone might in some cases produce.
Third, governments must carefully manage the transition to higher carbon prices, in particular where taxes interact with volatile commodity prices.
And higher fuel taxes can speed the transition to that end point.
The US increased foreign aid by perhaps $4 billion a year at the same time that it increased military spending by $150 billion annually and cut taxes by trillions of dollars.
The moral superiority of high marginal income taxes suddenly waned.
But he left the country’s high taxes and welfare state in place.
Meanwhile, Sweden’s public debt was reduced from 73% of GDP to 39% of GDP, while taxes have been cut repeatedly.
Thus, everybody, including the poor, pays taxes so that mostly wealthier beneficiaries can feel greener.
Even taking a generous view, the best that can be said is that the system is neutral insofar as redistribution is concerned, because the wealthiest pay more taxes and use more university services.
Raising taxes on the beneficiaries of publicly funded research would be a challenge, given that the link between an original breakthrough and the wealth it created might be hard to quantify.
Yet many of its citizens recently faced eviction by Spanish banks that had been bailed out by their taxes.
A revenue-neutral reform of business taxes, for example, could raise the level of output with no meaningful impact on the distribution of income.
For the sake of illustration, consider the effects of a hypothetical 10% reduction in labor taxes paid for by a lump-sum tax modeled using a neo-classical Ramsey growth model – a scenario that I detailed in a recent paper for the Olivier Blanchard and Lawrence Summers series on Rethinking Macroeconomics.
But taxes increased for two-thirds of households.
But most policymakers would likely object if they understood that growth would be achieved by higher taxes on two-thirds of households, leaving the median household working harder to earn the same after-tax income.
Similarly, during Global Witness’s investigation in Sarawak, Malaysia, members of the ruling family and their lawyers described the mechanisms they use to evade taxes; for example, Singapore’s secrecy laws enable them to conceal their identities when selling off vast chunks of disputed land.
Candidate Romney was so cowed by his party’s obsession with low taxes that he never put forth a budget that added up.
Some of the most egregious examples included Obama’s claims that Romney was planning to raise taxes by $2,000 on middle-income taxpayers and/or cut taxes by $5 trillion, and that Romney backed a law that would outlaw “all abortions, even in cases of rape and incest.”
Romney went even further, claiming that Obama planned to raise taxes by $4,000 on middle-income taxpayers; that Obama planned “to gut welfare reform by dropping work requirements”; and that Chrysler, bailed out by the Obama administration, was moving all of its Jeep production to China.
In response, the US Congress is moving to create a system of trade sanctions that would levy heavy taxes on imports from other major greenhouse gas emitters.
CAMBRIDGE – Ever since Donald Trump won the US presidential election, the press and financial markets have focused on his proposal to cut taxes and to spend $1 trillion on infrastructure over the next decade.
The new revolution in economics may find a place for strategies based on affecting ideals and identities, not just taxes and subsidies.
In an open economy, fears of higher taxes may spur capital flight and a run against the domestic banks, requiring even bigger government transfers.
British voters line up behind the truck drivers when protests are launched against hikes in the price of petrol, not least through the introduction of higher energy taxes.
Ideas for carbon taxes run into resistance everywhere.
And, as debt burdens become heavier, public spending must be cut further and taxes increased to service the government’s debt and that of its wards, like the banks.
The Greek, Portuguese, Irish, and Italian economies are reeling under fiscal austerity – with budget cuts and higher taxes as far as the eye can see.
For example, we might reasonably ask whether they pay their fair share of taxes, or inquire about their charitable donations.
President Barack Obama’s administration seems to think that the problem is one of demand, and has passed stimulus measure after stimulus measure, reducing taxes and increasing transfers and government spending in order to boost consumption and investment.
The conservative economist responds that it is precisely because the government has become so free with taxpayers’ money that households, fearful of future taxes, are hunkering down and increasing savings.
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