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Consumption Tax

Let's Balance the Federal Budget Now

Pat Choate | Posted 02.02.2013 | Politics
Read More: War in the Middle East, Federal Budget Deficit, Military Spending, Corporate Income Tax, Consumption Tax, Fiscal Cliff, Cold War, Defense Spending, Defense Budget, Politics News
Pat Choate

If Congress and the president were not beholden to various special interests, the budget could be balanced in three easy steps.

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A Fair Tax for Progressives

Mark J. Perry and Robert Dell | Posted 06.18.2012 | Business
Read More: Ryan Budget, Tax Code, Fair Tax, Fair Tax Paul Ryan, Consumption Tax, Progressive Tax, Tax Reform, Regressive Tax, Business News
Mark J. Perry and Robert Dell

The current tax code destroys wealth and diminishes wealth creation excessively, but it does not effectively tax wealth (in the sense of raising revenue). The FairTax would tax spending from wealth in addition to fostering more wealth creation.

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Finance-Seer

Glenn C. Altschuler | Posted 06.10.2012 | Books
Read More: Goldman Sachs, Countywide Financial Corporation, Stock Market Bubbles, Government Regulation, Progressive Income Taxes, Finance Capitalism, Subprime Loans, Concentrations of Wealth, Consumption Tax, Irrational Exuberance, Finance and the Good Society, Estate Taxes, Occupy Wall Street, Cap and Trade, Books News
Glenn C. Altschuler

Finance and the Good Society is a timely and on the whole persuasive reminder that the institutions of capitalism have the capacity to spread democracy, prosperity and greater equality.

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QE2 Dangerous for American Wage Earners

Robert Lenzner | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Ppi, Wheat, Oil, Qe2, Gold, Silver, Soybeans, Sugar, Commodities, Cpi, Inflation, Commodity Prices, Consumption-Tax, Bernanke QE2, Business News
Robert Lenzner

A policy that makes fortunes for commodity traders, for hedge fund operators, for the gold and silver crowd while squeezing 90% of the nation is a terrible price to pay for replacing deflation with inflation.

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