In a message dated 4/23/05 4:42:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Peter C. McCluskey wrote:
Mancur Olson claims in his book Power and Prosperity that the
marginal income tax rate was effectively zero. The effective taxes
were near 100% of what a typical worker in any given position could
Yes. It suffers a bit from the historians' If you don't have a
document, it didn't happen bias, but it's good.
Anton Sherwood wrote:
Speaking of Communism, is The Black Book worth having?
I saw several copies yesterday at a secondhand store in San Leandro,
marked about $8 if memory serves.
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) writes:
Taking the example of Stalin's war on the peasantry in general and the
Ukraine in particular, we see that massive confiscations of income at marginal
rates
well in excess of 100% certainly detered economic activity, to put it rather
mildly.
Mancur
I think Bill accidentally sent this to me privately instead of the list.
Subject:
Re: Laffer Curve
From:
William Dickens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date:
Wed, 20 Apr 2005 16:31:33 -0400
To:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'll bite. I completely agree with Bill in the short-term. Higher
taxes raise revenue. But I
And I have a sneaking suspicion that more equitable distributions of
income lead to less social conflict and rent seeking and lead to higher
growth.
I wonder what the Laffer Curve would have to say about the tax rates and
equitable distributions of income and lesser or greater social conflict
and
In a message dated 4/21/05 12:26:02 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
And I have a sneaking suspicion that more equitable distributions of
income lead to less social conflict and rent seeking and lead to higher
growth.
I wonder what the Laffer Curve would have to say about the "tax" rates and
So it worked in the short run, and in the long run they were all dead!
On Apr 21, 2005, at 5:10 PM, Bryan Caplan wrote:
Yes, but ag collectivization in the USSR DID raise additional
government
revenue, at least in the short-run. The people starved, production
fell, but Stalin got more grain to
Speaking of Communism, is The Black Book worth having?
I saw several copies yesterday at a secondhand store in San Leandro,
marked about $8 if memory serves.
--
Anton Sherwood, http://www.ogre.nu/
That's the trouble with the empirical testing of Laffer effects. Your
selected timeframe has an inverse relationship with the revenue
maximizing rate of taxation. The tax policy that maximizes revenue over
the next hour is to confiscate everything. The revenue maximizing tax
policy over the
It's not as funny when you explain it...
On Apr 21, 2005, at 9:51 PM, James Wells wrote:
That's the trouble with the empirical testing of Laffer effects. Your
selected timeframe has an inverse relationship with the revenue
maximizing rate of taxation. The tax policy that maximizes revenue
over
If you ever wondered which end of the ideological spectrum was a
humorless lot...
Stephen Miller wrote:
It's not as funny when you explain it...
On Apr 21, 2005, at 9:51 PM, James Wells wrote:
That's the trouble with the empirical testing of Laffer effects. Your
selected timeframe has an inverse
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