Comments on: Explaining the Perverse Impact of Double Taxation with a Chart

By: Open letter to President Obama (Part 320) | The Daily Hatch

Open letter to President Obama (Part 320) | The Daily Hatch — Thu, 16 May 2013 06:38:07 +0000

[…] plan would increase the double taxation of dividends and capital gains. The U.S. already has a very anti-competitive system and this would […]

By: Going Galt: More Americans Vote with their Feet against Obama

Going Galt: More Americans Vote with their Feet against Obama — Sun, 12 May 2013 08:36:20 +0000

[…] when you add up the various forms of double taxation in the internal revenue code (particularly the death tax), it makes little sense for families with […]

By: Going Galt: More Americans Vote with their Feet against Obama | International Liberty

Sat, 11 May 2013 16:25:47 +0000

[…] when you add up the various forms of double taxation in the internal revenue code (particularly the death tax), it makes little sense for families with […]

By: The Strangest Tax Loophole Award « Sago

The Strangest Tax Loophole Award « Sago — Thu, 09 May 2013 18:30:15 +0000

[…] don’t understand the difference between a tax loophole such as ethanol and a tax penalty such as double taxation, so their version of tax reform could make bad policies even […]

By: The Strangest Tax Loophole Award | International Liberty

The Strangest Tax Loophole Award | International Liberty — Thu, 09 May 2013 13:47:59 +0000

[…] understand the difference between a tax loophole such as ethanol and a tax penalty such as double taxation, so their version of tax reform could make bad policies even […]

By: Solyndra, oil company tax deductions, etc | The Daily Hatch

Solyndra, oil company tax deductions, etc | The Daily Hatch — Mon, 06 May 2013 07:35:14 +0000

[...] why there shouldn’t be double taxation of income that is saved and invested, and it’s also why there shouldn’t be loopholes that favor some forms of economic [...]

By: The Revised Bowles-Simpson Tax-Hike Plan Might Be even Worse than the Previous Version | International Liberty

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 14:35:29 +0000

[...] disaster of Obamacare and that it also exacerbates the tax code’s punitive bias by increasing double taxation of income that is saved and [...]

By: New GAO Study Mistakenly Focuses on Make-Believe Tax Expenditures | International Liberty

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 15:49:52 +0000

[...] tax base as a benchmark, and that approach assumes bad policies such as the double taxation of income that is saved and invested. If you want to get deep in the weeds of tax policy, I shared late last year some good analysis on [...]

By: Open letter to President Obama (Part 297) | The Daily Hatch

Open letter to President Obama (Part 297) | The Daily Hatch — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 12:39:38 +0000

[...] why there shouldn’t be double taxation of income that is saved and invested, and it’s also why there shouldn’t be loopholes that favor some forms of economic [...]

By: Show Me the Money. | Daily Pundit

Show Me the Money. | Daily Pundit — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 04:30:16 +0000

[...] second chart shows how the internal revenue code treats income that is consumed compared to how it penalizes income that is saved and invested. Simply stated, the current system is very biased against capital formation because of the combined [...]

By: Identifying the Right “Depreciation” Tax Policy: The Most Boring – but Important – Article You Will Read Today | International Liberty

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 14:20:06 +0000

By: Open letter to President Obama (Part 266) | The Daily Hatch

Open letter to President Obama (Part 266) | The Daily Hatch — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 05:05:43 +0000

[...] It doesn’t appear that this plan will get the necessary support from the Tories, but it’s remarkable that it has been proposed. Like the death tax, the wealth tax is a turbo-charged form of double taxation. [...]

By: Everything You Need to Know about the Ryan Budget | International Liberty

Everything You Need to Know about the Ryan Budget | International Liberty — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 15:24:29 +0000

[...] Not bold tax reform like a flat tax, but top tax rates would be reduced to 25 percent and many forms of double taxation like the death tax and capital gains tax presumably would be reduced or [...]

By: Open letter to President Obama (Part 263) | HaltingArkansasLiberalswithTruth

Sat, 09 Mar 2013 15:42:06 +0000

[...] They lower the price of saving and investment relative to consumption. [...]

By: Corporate Jet Loopholes, Depreciation, and Common-Sense Tax Policy | International Liberty

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 22:24:32 +0000

[...] assumes that there should be double taxation of income that is saved and invested (as shown by this startling chart). Another way of saying this is that the Haig-Simons approach assumes the government should tax [...]

By: There are five major policy areas, each of which counts for 20 percent of a nation’s grade | HaltingArkansasLiberalswithTruth

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 12:21:38 +0000

[...] They lower the price of saving and investment relative to consumption. [...]

By: From Employment to Savings, Bad Government Policy Is Undermining the U.S. Economy « International Liberty

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 19:54:32 +0000

[...] rate, I should have explained that government policies undermine savings, both because of the tax code’s pro-consumption bias and because reasons to save are diminished thanks to government-provided subsidies for things such [...]

By: Crony Capitalists Endorse Higher Taxes on their Small Business Competitors

Crony Capitalists Endorse Higher Taxes on their Small Business Competitors — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:06:14 +0000

[...] I want to get rid of the double taxation of dividends andcapital gains in part because these reforms will boost business [...]

By: Open letter to President Obama (Part 226) « HaltingArkansasLiberalswithTruth

Fri, 25 Jan 2013 13:40:18 +0000

[...] – All major tax reform plans, such as the flat tax and national sales tax, get rid of the tax bias against income that is saved and invested. The capital gains tax, double tax on dividends, and death tax are all abolished. Shifting to a [...]

By: Governor Jindal’s Bold Plan to Abolish Louisiana’s Income Tax « OBAMA-B-GONEOBAMA-B-GONE

Tue, 15 Jan 2013 12:02:20 +0000

[...] a big fan of the flat tax as a way of neutering the punitive and convoluted internal revenue code in [...]

By: Governor Jindal’s Bold Plan to Abolish Louisiana’s Income Tax « International Liberty

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 21:30:00 +0000

[...] a big fan of the flat tax as a way of neutering the punitive and convoluted internal revenue code in [...]

By: Burden of government spending in the U.K. rose from 36.5 percent of economic output in 2000 up to 48.7 percent of GDP today « HaltingArkansasLiberalswithTruth

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 19:10:11 +0000

By: The only Good Death Tax Is a Dead Death Tax « International Liberty

The only Good Death Tax Is a Dead Death Tax « International Liberty — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 00:43:58 +0000

[...] But the more serious point is that the death tax shouldn’t exist at all, as I’ve explained for USA Today. And in this CNBC debate, I argue that it is an immoral form of double taxation. [...]

By: Capital gains tax rate and the Obama administration « HaltingArkansasLiberalswithTruth

Fri, 04 Jan 2013 13:39:14 +0000

[...] The right approach is to have a “consumption tax base,” which simply is another way of saying that income shouldn’t be taxed more than one time (as shown in this flowchart). [...]

By: Open letter to President Obama (Part 210) « HaltingArkansasLiberalswithTruth

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 14:57:10 +0000

[...] Yet the United States imposes very harsh tax burdens on capital formation, largely thanks to multiple layers of tax on income that is saved and invested. [...]

By: Once Obama’s Policies Are Implemented Next Year, U.S. Capital Gains Tax Rate Will be 70 percent Higher than Global Average « International Liberty

Sun, 30 Dec 2012 15:30:49 +0000

[...] The right approach is to have a “consumption tax base,” which simply is another way of saying that income shouldn’t be taxed more than one time (as shown in this flowchart). [...]

By: The Sunday ‘Report;’ 12/23/2012 « Justincase505's Blog

The Sunday ‘Report;’ 12/23/2012 « Justincase505's Blog — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 18:16:47 +0000

[...] I want to get rid of the double taxation of dividends and capital gains in part because these reforms will boost business [...]

By: What’s the Best Response when Crony Capitalists from Big Business Endorse Higher Taxes on their Small Business Competitors? « International Liberty

Fri, 21 Dec 2012 21:59:46 +0000

[...] I want to get rid of the double taxation of dividends and capital gains in part because these reforms will boost business [...]

By: Time to Get Rid of Tax Preferences for Housing in the Internal Revenue Code « International Liberty

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 21:16:16 +0000

[...] is that there no longer should be any double taxation of income that is saved and invested. As you can see in this chart, people who live for today and immediately consume their after-tax income are basically spared any [...]

By: We Need More Growth and Prosperity to Boost Charitable Contributions, not Bribery in the Tax Code « International Liberty

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 15:29:51 +0000

[...] but the negative impact of taxation can be reduced by lowering marginal tax rate(s), eliminating double taxation of saving and investment, and getting rid of loopholes that encourage people to make decisions for tax reasons even if they [...]