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...a mistake in levying the luxury tax. SEN. JOHN BREAUX, (D) Louisiana: ...her favorite new and wonderful proposed tax-financed spending program? And, alas, ...reduces economic activity overall, since the taxes that would be collected from otherwise... increases never mention "deadweightloss of taxes". Whyever would that be?... of taxation represents an efficiency loss which must be compared with ...
...start with by themselves. And the deadweight cost rises not with the tax rate but with the *square* ...land value doesn't impose any "deadweight" cost. It is not clear to...tax ever causes a deadweightloss. The tax money flows out through the.... Stuff that's funded by tax dollars is outside the usual price...think they'll pay less in taxes (usually while they're critically ...
... <never.m...@tesco.net> wrote: ...A tax on land value doesn't impose any "deadweight" cost. A tax on boats causes people to stop making boats.A tax on land doesn't cause anyone to... of the surest ways to provoke "tax revolts" is to raise property taxes....a few reasons why people oppose land taxes - e.g. ignorance an greed. A 'deadwieght loss' isn't one of them. ...
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... suppose an 'oxbow' has ensued. Taxes that are not collected while ... so the government, through the tax on gizmo sales, collects exactly...that *exceed* the amount of tax collected are: 1) The amount...making sales while paying the tax) PLUS 2) The amount of...business while paying $0 tax), the deadweightloss. Welfare cost of...with the *square* of the tax rate. You should have retained...
...wrote: *For a firm*, or even a collection of firms in an industry, there is indeed a deadweightloss. From a 50,000 foot view, the flows have just shifted. In the 'boat' example, I suppose...theory). There would be no subsidy effect, no redirection at all. Debating the income tax seems a waste of time. It just Is. -- Les Cargill
