Taxpayer
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In other words, with or without children, the French citizen’s annual tax payment would be smaller than that of the Italian
taxpayer
with no additional wealth.
Pumping vast
taxpayer
funds into financial behemoths does not solve the deeper problem of deflating an overleveraged society.
Insurance has often also become a public responsibility in developed countries: the
taxpayer
cedes a portion of his income, in return for which the state may provide unemployment benefits, health care, and other essential services.
In other words, they are putting
taxpayer
money where commercial companies fear to tread.
In the end, not just democracy but the
taxpayer
may be the victim.
For Europe’s governments, fostering champions increasingly means providing benefits to non-national customers and employees – a dubious use of
taxpayer
money.
For governments, the key to success in regulating financial markets lies in maintaining reasonable constraints during boom times that prevent
taxpayer
funds from being put excessively at risk.
How is it that the Fed’s balance sheet can expand so dramatically, potentially committing large sums of
taxpayer
dollars, without Congress having a purchase on its decisions, except well after the event?
Of course, that is an argument against badly designed bank bailouts, like the one in America, which has cost US
taxpayer
hundreds of billions of dollars, much of it never to be recovered.
In this case, too-big-to-fail financial institutions had perverse incentives: if they gambled and succeeded, they walked off with the profits; if they lost, the
taxpayer
would pay.
Instead,
taxpayer
money is often spent on whatever issues receive the most media attention or have the most engaged stakeholders.
They must also prepare what are colloquially known as “living wills,” which explain how they would be wound down in a crisis – ideally without
taxpayer
support.
It has to, lest the German
taxpayer
revolt at being asked to pay for Europe in perpetuity.
Before it was passed, one wit joked that the Food Security Bill meant “food for the poor, security for the ruling party, and the bill for the taxpayer.”
The negative income tax may be the best way possible to achieve simplicity, inclusiveness, and moderate
taxpayer
cost.
Several governments have declared that
taxpayer
money cannot go into operations abroad.
When one looks across the landscape of remaining problems, including the multi-trillion-dollar credit default swap market, it is clear that the hole in the financial system is too big to be filled entirely by
taxpayer
dollars.
The
taxpayer
is not called upon, even in extreme cases, and states can go bankrupt.
In the United States, big bonuses given to executives from firms receiving billions of dollars in
taxpayer
bailouts – the insurance giant AIG, in particular – has infuriated public opinion, with a populist press and Congress fueling popular rage.
The Danish wind industry is nearly completely dependent on
taxpayer
subsidies to support a modest workforce.
Each new wind-power job costs the Danish
taxpayer
at least $119,000 (€81,000) per year.
Why should the
taxpayer
accept a loss when they are bailing out the private sector by providing new funding?
Strong banks want strong regulation, and we believe that no
taxpayer
money should ever again be put at risk to rescue a failed or failing bank.
A desirable way to broaden the tax base would be to put an overall cap on the amount of tax reduction that each
taxpayer
can achieve through deductions and exclusions.
Such an overall cap would allow each
taxpayer
to retain all of his existing deductions and exclusions but would limit the amount by which he could reduce his tax liability in this way.
Big banks get a big
taxpayer
subsidy – in the form of downside protection for their creditors.
So here is an idea that might work politically: Let taxpayers keep all of the current tax expenditures, but limit the total amount by which each
taxpayer
can reduce his or her tax liability in this way.
Rather, fairness requires that people pay taxes at a higher percentage if they have more money: a fair share of the tax burden is one that reflects the
taxpayer'
s ability to pay.
Any claim about the fair distribution of tax burdens must make use of a baseline of comparison--something in relation to which the burden of each
taxpayer
is measured.
Fixing the “too big to fail” problem is certainly important, but the direct
taxpayer
costs of bank rescues were small change compared to the damage wreaked by the financial crisis.
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