Last year, I expressed skepticism that the White House was serious about reducing the corporate tax rate. And, sure enough, when the Obama Administration produced a plan earlier this year, it was a disappointing mix of a few good provisions and several unpalatable proposals.
This is unfortunate because the United States has one of the most punitive corporate tax systems in the developed world. Indeed, every singe European welfare state has a lower corporate tax rate than America – even leftists nations such as France and Sweden!
For a long time, only Japan imposed a more onerous tax rate than the United States. But even that now has changed. After toying with the idea since 2010, the Japanese government finally pulled the trigger and reduced the nation’s tax rate.
Here’s a brief blurb from Reuters.
The United States will hold the dubious distinction starting on Sunday of having the developed world’s highest corporate tax rate after Japan’s drops to 38.01 percent… Japan’s reduction , prompted by years of pressure from Japanese politicians hoping to spur economic growth, will give that country the world’s second-highest rate. …The average 2012 corporate tax rate for the 34 developed countries is 25.4 percent, according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.
That leaves America in the unenviable position of having the developed world’s highest corporate tax rate, somewhere between 39 percent-40 percent. This video explains why this isn’t a good idea.
It was my very first video, so it’s not a polished product, but the information is right on the mark.
The moral of the story is very straightforward. A high corporate tax rate is a self-imposed wound to American competitiveness. But that’s only part of the story. America also has a “worldwide” tax system, which forces U.S. companies to suffer a big disadvantage when trying to compete for market share in other nations.
No wonder even officials from the Clinton Administration have begun to argue that the corporate tax rate should be significantly lowered.
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Dependency is destructive, of course.
But there is a huge and hidden cost to ANY welfare program.
Whenever we decide give subsidies, no matter how legitimate, we create an extra “wedge” of wasted benefits.
For example, say we make sure everyone gets at least $20,000 a year. If you make say $18k, your benefit is $2k.
But if next year your income rises to $19k, we can’t just cut your benefit to $1k. That would be like a 100% marginal tax rate. You would never try to raise your income if you lost dollar-for-dollar.
So we always taper off the benefits and tax payers lose the excess.
The few remaining taxpayers need to understand this extra deadweight cost hidden in every new political scheme.
The diaper man is eligible for benefits because of an issue unrelated to the fact that he likes to live like a baby. That is why his benefits were not rescinded after the review. Should his legitimate benefits be cut because he lives a strange life style?
http://www.ohiokysocialsecuritydisabilityattorney.com/2011/05/senator-questions-need-of-adult-baby-to-be-on-ssdi.shtml
“According to the 30-year-old’s website, the man worked as a security guard for a year and a half before mental problems and trauma from childhood abuse made it impossible for him to hold a job. He has received disability for the majority of the last ten years.”
If you want to criticize the medical diagnosis or the rules for disability for the mentally ill that is legitimate. But “living like a baby” is not what makes him eligible for benefits.
I think it is pretty hypocritical, pathetic actually, that virtually none of the conservative bloggers on the internet has explained this story clearly. Why should people believe what they read when the authors are as lazy and biased as the mainstream media?
@0789….
There are many people who live a productive life with past abuses and trauma. They work and they seek help while working… and if you read the last paragraph in the very link you provided, you will see this person is not ‘disabled’…
“Senator Coburn questions the sincerity of the 30-year-old’s benefits since the man dresses appropriately in public, drives himself to errands, builds custom furniture and runs an internet support group.”
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