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European universities are generally based on three misguided principles: taxpayers rather than students pay for university education; faculty appointments are governed by public sector contracts and university procedures are often centralized and almost always inflexible; salaries amongst teachers tend to be equalized as well as teaching quality amongst universities.
Having taxpayers cover the costs of university education is indeed redistributive, but in the wrong direction--the beneficiaries are most often the children of comfortable European families.
Such a system is at least as "fair" as Europe's model, and probably more so than one in which taxpayers pay for everybody, including the rich.
A combination of measures and international agreements must be found that would allow taxpayers to obtain decent returns on their investments, without removing the incentives for savvy entrepreneurs to commercialize innovative products.
But to understand how this policy would actually play out for taxpayers, I applied the scenario to the real distribution of US household incomes in 2010.
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.
The common shareholders in financial firms do not have an incentive to induce executives to take into account the losses that risks can impose on preferred shareholders, bondholders, depositors, and taxpayers.
Next time, Europe’s taxpayers will be on the hook.
We now know that some of these market emperors had no clothes, and that their activities, far from benign, could result in severe financial instability and generate serious losses for taxpayers, not to mention precipitating a global recession.
Of course, there would be some big gainers from agricultural reform, but they are chiefly consumers and taxpayers in rich countries.
But, because taxpayers did respond to the improved incentives, real pre-tax incomes rose and tax collection actually increased.
In the 30 years since the Reagan tax cuts were enacted, tax rates have increased substantially, particularly for higher-income taxpayers.
For the next 19% of taxpayers, the effective tax rate fell only slightly.
Yet the deal will cost taxpayers $7 million, and still allow Carrier to outsource 1,300 jobs to Mexico.
Over the last seven years, the ECB’s actions have helped Germany’s economy and taxpayers as much as those of its neighbors.
Moreover, the claim that the ECB’s purchases of asset-backed securities amount to “toxic loans” that transfer risk to German taxpayers is unfounded; after all, there have been almost no defaults since 2008.
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.
And global investors continue to exit the eurozone in droves, shifting countries’ liabilities to taxpayers and the ECB’s balance sheet.
American taxpayers would also benefit.
France is also trying to return to old policies of bailing out unprofitable private companies on the verge of collapse with taxpayers' money.
French taxpayers' money is better spent on temporary benefits for displaced workers than on subsidies to keep an unprofitable plant alive.
The idea is attractive, but it must be recognized that a joint guarantee implies that each of the participating countries will give their partners access to their own taxpayers, who may be required to stand in for a defaulting borrower.
In the aftermath of the various bailouts associated with the eurozone financial crisis that began in 2009, the notion that German taxpayers should foot the bill for regional support does not sit well with the country’s politicians or public.
With Spain also requiring billions more to recapitalize its banks, the contingent claims on taxpayers in the core countries continue to mount.
The fact that solar technologies can be produced locally from recycled materials, Pauli argues, means that governments should not provide solar-related subsidies and bailouts – the costs of which eventually land on taxpayers.
That way, shareholders, not taxpayers, would take the big hit in a crisis.
The US government is the world’s largest funder of medical research and development; globally, taxpayers finance a third of spending on health research.
So it should come as no surprise when policymakers insist that the industry’s efforts at innovation be channeled into areas that provide the most benefit to taxpayers and patients, rather than those – like financial maneuvers – that might be most profitable for the industry in the short term.
In an already overtaxed country (at least for the 60% of taxpayers who do not or cannot cheat), this was a huge political mistake.
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