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Courtesy of Paul Caron, here is a must-watch interview of New York University Law School Professor Richard Epstein: Richard Epstein: The Income Inequality Myth Watch Does U.S. Economic Inequality Have a Good Side? on PBS. See more from PBS NewsHour. The Daily, Don’t Mind the Gap:  Occupiers Blast Economic Inequality but Fail to Notice Growing [...]

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David Logan of Tax Policy Blog has another reality check for the 99 percenters occupying Wall Street: An Overlooked Two-Year Trend: Incomes of the Top 1 Percent Decline While Effective Rates Increase It’s true.  In 2008 and 2009, the average taxpayer in the top 1 percent made less money than they did in the prior [...]

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If President Obama were like George Washington and could not tell a lie, this is what he would say to the American taxpayer: Yes, we are going to increase your taxes, but don’t worry. If we waste those funds, we’ll just increase your taxes again. An entity that can raise its “prices” without consequence (i.e. without the loss of “business” [...]

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Who knew Steve Jobs was also a wise philosopher? No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the [...]

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As readers of this blog know, I am a frequent reader of Linda Beale’s tax blog ataxingmatter. I recently left a comment on one of her posts objecting to the left’s demonization of conservatives as either stupid or malicious and said the following: Conservatives have a good faith belief that less government regulation, lower taxes [...]

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For some folks this post from Paul Caron will probably be received as good news: Johnston: Income Gender Gap Narrows as Male Income Falls Reuters, Underpaid Women and Their Men, by David Cay Johnston: New data on U.S. incomes, poverty, pensions and philanthropy all show  a common economic reality — women are still getting shortchanged. [...]

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One of the big questions being asked of folks on the left these days is “how much of every dollar do you think taxpayers should be allowed to keep?” So far, progressives have deftly avoided answering it. They should continue to avoid answering it because it’s a trick question. No matter how you answer this [...]

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