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first of all, the 17%-25% figures are inclusive taxes, not the exclusive sales tax rates you and I are used to at the check out register. So that...
Max - I don't want to belabor the point on whether it's 30% or 50%. Sorry if you think I'm being argumentative. Different simulations with...
first of all, the fairtax is an inclusive 23%, which corresponds to an exclusive 30% rate (i.e. you'd pay $1.30 for every $1 you spend at the...
Does that replace payroll taxes as well as income taxes? Does that replace corporate and estate taxes as well? Does taht account for erosion of...
FYI - I'm not saying consumption taxes are bad, and personally I would make out better with them than without them. I just wanted to clear up...
Why are people assuming that if we adopt a consumption tax, the tax rate will be 10%? Where did that come from?!?! From models I've seen,...
Sam - I understand what you're saying, and your arguments make sense. All I'm saying is that theory suggests that the net effect of illegal...
1. I'm referring to the skill gap between all illegal aliens and all americans. In other words, illegal immigrants tend to be low skilled...
There's no gap between illegal alien wages and citizen wages, but there's a HUGE gap between illegal alien skills and citizen skills. With the...
Sam - I would also like to say that I agree taht immigration is just a drop in the bucket. Any losses in welfare due to illegal immigration pale...
I'm not talking about accounting costs. I could care less about those (and with respect to a people that are avoiding detection, accounting costs...
Sam, you're making pretty strong statements here that simply do not have any form of consensus in the labor economics literature. Most labor...
In 1994, Africa was 14.6% Catholic (according to the UN) I would presume that sub-saharan africa is probably upwards of 25% catholic, as the...
For me, it's not the bigger bodies that clue me into the idea that they're juicing. A 35 year old that hits the weights for 15 years is going to...
I had a conversation with a doctor/sports fan about this, and he thought that the most important advantage steroids would give to a baseball...
TheFreak - many supermarkets have plastic bag recycling cans near their entrances. If you can't reuse them, this is the next best thing.
B-Bob - At a quick glance, I agree with you that some sort of rail transit option is viable for the bay area. I know for a fact that the...
If I'm not mistaken, BART alone had over $.5 billion dollar subsidy for operating expenses alone in the last fiscal year. Let's not even talk...
Sishir - Weyrich is the guy that was the first president of Heritage, right? I'm not sure what kind of empirical work he's done on transit,...
This guy is an amazing person. I used to live with somebody who worked for Call to Renewal, his organization, and I've had a number of chances to...
