Can Tax Rate Increases Spur Economic Development?
During the Great Depression and the period leading up to it, the tax rate of the highest personal earned income tax bracket (“highest tax bracket rate”) was 25%, 10 percentage-points lower than the...
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Put your ideas to work. Little by little, give them a chance. Even if you think realizing your concept might be challenging or that someone else might have come up with the concept, you never know what...
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Two Yale professors, Barry J. Nalebuff and Ian Ayres, created a communal site, WhyNot? Idea Exchange, enabling members to submit and contribute to the development of ideas. (Mr. Nalebuff is also the...
View ArticleCan Raising Taxes Improve The Economy?
In an earlier post, we considered whether tax rate increases can spur economic development from a historical vantage point. From a conceptual vantage point, it is also evident that tax rate increases...
View ArticleCan Tax Rate Increases Spur Economic Development?
During the Great Depression and the period leading up to it, the tax rate of the highest personal earned income tax bracket (“highest tax bracket rate”) was 25%, 10 percentage-points lower than the...
View ArticleCan Raising Taxes Improve The Economy?
In an earlier post, we considered whether tax rate increases can spur economic development from a historical vantage point. From a conceptual vantage point, it is also evident that tax rate increases...
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