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The Economy According to Taylor and Judd: Chapter 5 of 5

by Peter M. Robinson with John B. Taylor, Kenneth L. Juddvia National Review Online
Friday, February 15, 2008

Should the next president let the Bush tax cuts expire, on the theory that the government will need higher tax revenues to meet a rising entitlement burden?

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John McCain, Tax-Cutter (You Read that Right)

by Peter M. Robinson with John B. Taylorvia Corner (National Review Online)
Thursday, February 14, 2008

Kevin Stach has a column in today's Wall Street Journal that's important—no, make that Important...

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Consumers not likely to spend tax rebates

with John B. Taylorvia San Francisco Chronicle
Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Congress is plowing ahead with a plan to stimulate consumer spending by issuing tax rebates, even though most Americans say they would save them or use them to pay off debt...

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Econ Artist

with Milton Friedmanvia Claremont Institute
Monday, January 28, 2008

Republicans, including President Bush, have said a lot of silly things in defense of tax cuts...

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Letter: FAST Makes Waste, At Least in This Case

with Milton Friedmanvia Wall Street Journal
Monday, January 28, 2008

Steve Forbes's op-ed on the Fair and Simple Tax ("The Giuliani Tax Cut," Jan. 24) was disappointing...

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Tax Burdens

by Gary S. Beckervia Becker-Posner Blog
Sunday, January 27, 2008

The burden of taxes to a country depends not only on the fraction of its gross domestic product GDP that are collected as tax revenue –the data shown in Posner's chart- but on many other factors as well...

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Taxes Made Simple

with Alvin Rabushka, Robert E. Hallvia New York Sun
Friday, January 25, 2008

Tax reform: it's a burgeoning topic on the presidential hopeful campaign trails, and on the minds of more and more taxpayers lured into the net of the Alternative Minimum Tax...

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Tax Rebates

with Milton Friedmanvia CBS News
Sunday, January 20, 2008

Bruce Bartlett takes to the pages of the Wall Street Journal to warn us that while a one-shot tax rebate in April might make us all feel good, it won't actually stimulate the economy because people are unlikely to spend very much of it...

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Flat is where it's at

with Alvin Rabushkavia Toronto Star
Sunday, January 13, 2008

Here's something to think about while you're cursing at the gas pumps, where the price gouging could hit more than $1.50 a litre, where almost 50% of what you pay is tax, where the GST is a tax on tax and you have no idea if 2% GST savings is being passed on...

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Canada Would Benefit from a 15 Percent Flat Tax

with Alvin Rabushkavia National Center for Policy Analysis
Friday, January 11, 2008

Most Canadian taxpayers could complete their personal tax returns in about five minutes using a postcard-size form if Canada adopted a 15 percent flat tax, according to a new report by the Fraser Institute...

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