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Rather than spending the government tax money on federal research (which is best reserved for cases of market failure, which is clearly not the case in this greentech boom), use it to reduce taxes elsewhere.

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Any option that is kinder to [a person who earns a lot throughout his life and blows it, ending up penniless] will inevitably provide disincentives for people to prepare for their own retirement.

Tags: motivation, suboptimization, taxation on 2006-09-13 -All Annotations (0) -About

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From an economic standpoint, a retail sales tax and a value-added tax are equivalent, but the value-added tax may raise fewer problems in compliance.

Tags: consumption, evasion, taxation on 2006-08-20 -All Annotations (0) -About

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there's an ethical hang-up: people think it's discriminatory to make immigrants pay higher taxes, yet somehow it's not discriminatory to keep them out altogether, which hurts them much more.

Tags: discrimination, exclusion, immigration, optimization, progression, restriction, taxation on 2006-06-21 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Here is a challenge for those us in the pro-immigration camp: Can we devise a system of taxes and transfers that turns the increase in economic efficiency from immigration into a Pareto improvement?

Tags: aspiration, catalyzation, configuration, immigration, inhibition, optimization, persuasion, progression, suboptimization, taxation, transaction, transition on 2006-06-05 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Reneging on existing deals, even bad ones, is disastrous. If the government can, in effect, steal from private companies whenever that generates good PR for politicians, the incentives for investment and exploration diminish markedly.

Tags: anticipation, contribution, expectation, exploration, intervention, motivation, negotiation, reputation, taxation on 2006-05-27 -All Annotations (0) -About

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I think economists are probably overfunded, given the rate at which we make progress. Economists are like dairy farmers. We think we deserve every penny we get.

Tags: contribution, distortion, optimization, prioritization, progression, subsidization, taxation on 2006-05-27 -All Annotations (0) -About

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The fact that Americans do not pay the full price for the pollution – especially enormous contributions to greenhouse gases – that results from their profligate energy use means that energy is under-priced, in turn sustaining excessive consumption.

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Take a married couple with two children under 11 and pre-tax earnings of £200 a week. If they get a better job, raising their earnings to £300 a week, by how much does their net income rise? £60? £50? £40? Nope. £8.52.

Tags: demotivation, taxation on 2006-03-22 -All Annotations (0) -About

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When London decided to charge for its valuable automobile capacity at peak times, [...] it raised the social value of the overall traffic network by creating explicit priorities and the open opportunity for all to choose - or not - to pursue them.

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When AOL proposed a fee that bulk emailers could pay to be exempt from company spam filters, there was a huge cry of protest from surprisingly diverse groups. Yet, being charged a fee in order to send an email message is exactly the correct solution.

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The private property ethic - The idea that private property is a just institution and the only means of creating economic prosperity, and the view of the state as an outcast institution that is destructive of wealth formation - must be revived again.

Tags: catalyzation, education, perception, taxation, transition on 2006-02-24 -All Annotations (0) -About

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If the President really wished to reduce our "addiction" to imported oil, the most effective way of accomplishing this aim would be an energy tax.

Tags: addiction, consumption, taxation on 2006-02-21 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Unless the government would do great damage with the revenue collected from congestion tolls, these tolls are much more efficient than the current taxes on time that result from traffic congestion.

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Current gasoline prices are far too low, because they fail to reflect the environmental and foreign policy costs associated with gasoline consumption.

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The mileage tax is a poor substitute for the gas tax. It has all the negative features of the gas tax, but does not have the positive impact of causing consumers to buy less polluting cars.

Tags: consumption, stimulation, taxation on 2006-02-14 -All Annotations (0) -About

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