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Aaron Palm

David Ranson: The Revenue Limits of Tax and Spend - WSJ.com - 0 views

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  • President Obama's fiscal 2011 budget, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates a deficit that starts at 10.3% of GDP in 2010. It is projected to narrow as the economy recovers but will still be 5.6% in 2020. As a result the net national debt (debt held by the public) will more than double to 90% by 2020 from 40% in 2008.
  • They do not include deficit spending resulting from the new health-insurance legislation. The revenue numbers rely on increased tax rates beginning next year resulting from the scheduled expiration of the Bush tax cuts. And, as usual, they ignore the unfunded liabilities of social insurance programs,
  • "Hauser's Law," as I call this formula, reveals a kind of capacity ceiling for federal tax receipts at about 19% of GDP.
  • Aaron Palm on 19 May 10
     
    We can never collect more than 20% tax rate
Jason Welker

Nouriel Roubini - What America needs is a payroll tax cut - 2 views

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  • The administration knows that it needs to fashion a revenue-neutral fiscal stimulus that increases labor demand and consumption. Its proposal to make permanent a research and development tax credit that dates to the 1980s, and then to enact a temporary investment tax credit allowing firms to write down capital investments at 100 percent of cost, are welcome -- but too modest a cure for what ails the economy. A much better option is for the administration to reduce the payroll tax for two years. The reduced labor costs would lead employers to hire more; for employees, the increased take-home pay would boost much-needed economic consumption and advance the still-crucial process of deleveraging households (paying down credit card debt and other legacies of the easy-credit years).
  • Jason Welker on 17 Sep 10
     
    Roubini says cut payroll tax to relieve households and encourage hiring.
Aaron Palm

BREAKING: Comprehensive List of Net Tax Hikes in Health Reconciliation Bill - 0 views

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  • Aaron Palm on 31 Mar 10
     
    All of the tax hikes as a result of the health care reform of 2010
Jason Welker

Another Mankiw problem for the motivated Micro student! | Welker's Wikinomics Blog - 2 views

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  • Harvard’s Greg Mankiw just keep them coming! Here’s another micro problem from the esteemed professor and textbook author’s blog. Several readers enjoyed challenging themselves with his last Micro problem, so I will re-publish Mankiw’s test question here to see if people can solve it in the comment section on this blog (sorry Professor Mankiw, you have comments turned off on your blog, so how are your readers to know if they have solved it correctly?)
  • The town of Wiknam has 5 residents whose only activity is producing and consuming fish. They produce fish in two ways. Each person who works on a fish farm raises 2 fish per day. Each person who goes fishing in the town lake catches X fish per day. X depends on N, the number of residents fishing in the lake. In particular, X = 6 – N. Each resident is attracted to the job that pays more fish. a. Why do you suppose that X, the productivity of each fisherman, falls as N, the number of fishermen, rises? What economic term would you use to describe the fish in the town lake? Would the same description apply to the fish from the farms? Explain. b. The town’s Freedom Party thinks every individual should have the right to choose between fishing in the lake and farming without government interference. Under its policy, how many of the residents would fish in the lake and how many would work on fish farms? How many fish are produced? c. The town’s Efficiency Party thinks Wiknam should produce as many fish as it can. To achieve this goal, how many of the residents should fish in the lake and how many should work on the farms? (Hint: Create a table that shows the number of fish produced—on farms, from the lake, and in total—for each N from 0 to 5.) d. The Efficiency Party proposes achieving its goal by taxing each person fishing in the lake by an amount equal to T fish per day and distributing the proceeds equally among all Wiknam residents. Calculate the value of T that would yield the outcome you derived in part (c).
  • e. Compared with the Freedom Party’s hands-off policy, who benefits and who loses from the imposition of the Efficiency Party’s fishing tax?
  • Jason Welker on 20 Nov 09
     
    Okay, this time I want to get in on the action before all you smart people get this one right on your first try again! I will offer my answers, but withhold the explanations for further discussion once other people have had a chance to chime in. a) Productivity of additional fishermen falls on the lake due to the law of diminishing marginal returns. Fish farmers would not experience diminishing returns, since each farmer is given access to additional land (or in this case water) and capital, assuming each farmer has his own farm. On the lake, labor is the only variable resource. On farms, land and capital vary with labor, assuring marginal product remains constant as additional residents get into fish farming b) Without any government interference, 1 resident will farm fish, and four will fish on the lake. c) To maximize town's total output of fish, only two residents should fish on the lake, and three should farm fish. d) To yield the maximum output of fish for the town, the town should tax lake fisherman by 2 fish. T=2. e) The hands off policy would have yielded 2 fish per resident per day. The fishing tax will ultimately yield each resident 2.8 fish per day. Therefore everyone benefits. The two lake fisherman give up half their daily catch to the government, but get part of it back through the re-distributive plan. Who else has their own answers, or explanations of MY answers!!??
Bret Willhoit

It's the Inequality, Stupid | Mother Jones - 7 views

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  • Bret Willhoit on 26 Feb 11
     
    Some great charts that visually show just how unequal the two America's have become in the last 35 years.  
Jason Welker

Economic View - A Dose of Skepticism on Government Spending - NYTimes.com - 5 views

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  • the centerpiece is likely to be a huge increase in government spending
  • John Maynard Keynes
  • A main focus was how to avoid, or at least mitigate, the recurring slumps in economic activity.
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  • Economic downturns, Mr. Keynes and Mr. Samuelson taught us, occur when the aggregate demand for goods and services is insufficient.
  • Higher consumer spending expands aggregate demand further, raising the G.D.P. yet again. And so on. This positive feedback loop is called the multiplier effect.
  • these Keynesian prescriptions make avoiding depressions seem too easy.
  • each dollar of government spending can increase the nation’s gross domestic product by more than a dollar
  • The solution, they said, was for the government to provide demand when the private sector would not.
  • less than a third of the increase takes the form of private consumption and investment.
  • Professor Ramey estimates that each dollar of government spending increases the G.D.P. by only 1.4 dollars.
  • In practice, however, the multiplier for government spending is not very large
  • If you hire your neighbor for $100 to dig a hole in your backyard and then fill it up, and he hires you to do the same in his yard, the government statisticians report that things are improving.
  • it is unlikely that, having wasted all that time digging and filling, either of you is better off.
  • inefficient spending
  • bridges to nowhere,
  • increase in economic well-being.
  • a rigorous cost-benefit analysis of each government project.
  • To this day, we have yet to come to grips with how to pay for all that the government created during that era
  • a temporary crisis as a pretense for engineering a permanent increase in the size and scope of the government. Believers in limited government have reason to be wary.
  • tax cuts will be a larger piece of the Obama recovery plan than was previously expected.
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