What you don't say is that the natural sinks are roughly equivalent to the natural sources and they pretty much balance out in a yearly cycle. In fact natural sinks absorb enough CO2 that less than 50% of human emissions remain in the atmosphere after 5 years. The rest goes into acidifying the oceans, plant growth and other geologic processes.
But I don't think it's proven at all that higher taxes always result in lower tax receipts for the government (or vice versa for that matter). To the extent that tax cuts increase the national debt I'm not they're helpful.
In the 1950's until 1965 the top marginal tax rate was around 90%. That didn't seem to hurt the economy that much. Until Reagan the top marginal tax rate was 74% (I think). We still did ok. Clinton increase taxes a bit and yet the economy still did well under his administration.
If they move outside of the country then they have to go through import controls to ship it back. That would give them a better chance to catch the tax cheaters because of the government scrutiny.
In my experience the difference between government and private enterprise isn't that government is more wasteful and inefficient but that it has to publicize it when it screws up and you usually don't hear that much about it in private enterprise until it reaches the spectacular level like last years Wall Street melt down.
I don't think the clearing house needs to be federal. The different states and other taxing authorities could just get together and form one as a central service that any retailer could use.
I like that. It would be a boon for my state (Oregon) which doesn't have a sales tax. We'd get a bunch of businesses locating here so they didn't have to pay sales taxes (just the 9% income tax).
Anything that is shipped across national borders is subject to import rules and any tax due can be collected at the border. That's not possible between states in the US.
The justification is that as a condition of allowing a business to make sales in the state they can require them to collect the sales/use tax. If the business doesn't want to collect for them then they can refrain from sales in the state.
I would propose a sales tax clearing house. The tax rate could be determined based on the zip code of delivery. So an e-tail business could just send the amount, zip code and product category (because some tax rates are based on what you are buying) to the clearing house and it would return the amount of tax to bill. Then each month you send a payment to the clearing house in the amount of tax you billed that month and it takes care of distributing the payments to the various tax authorities. It could be financed by skimming a small amount off the top.
The Japanese managed to launch 2 attacks on the US mainland early in WW2 (Sept. 1942) dropping incendiary bombs near Bandon, Oregon in an attempt to start forest fires. See the Lookout Air Raids. They were able to recover the airplanes without a problem and the pilot Nobuo Fujita lived until 1997.
Actually both federal seats that were up for election went to Democrats including a seat in upstate New York that hadn't gone D since the Civil War. It was 2 Governorships that went to the R's.
The driver who caused the accident would pay the bill, not the victim.
That only works if the driver who caused the accident can pay the bill. If you get hit by an uninsured driver who has no assets you can sue them all you want and you still won't get much money out of them.
Well, actually extending Medicare to everyone would reduce the per-capita costs of it. Right now Medicare covers people during what is generally the most expensive time of their lives in terms of medical costs.
The Post Office, the military, Social Security, Medicare, the Food & Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control, the National Institutes for Health, NASA, the USDA, NOAA...
They all have their problems but IMHO they all do more good than harm.
I suspect you'll probably sneer at my including Social Security and Medicare in there but without them millions of retired people wouldn't have a basic standard of living and reasonable medical care.
No, I think he was referring to the Nobel Prize in Economics which is a separate group from the Nobel Peace Prize. The Peace Prize is determined by a committee of Norwegians and awarded in Oslo.
Adults also know that the quality of their life is directly dependent on the quality of the community/civilization they live in. They understand that the "free market" is not capable of solving all of the problems of the community and that government is the means whereby we try to solve those problems. As Donne said "No man is an island".
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What you don't say is that the natural sinks are roughly equivalent to the natural sources and they pretty much balance out in a yearly cycle. In fact natural sinks absorb enough CO2 that less than 50% of human emissions remain in the atmosphere after 5 years. The rest goes into acidifying the oceans, plant growth and other geologic processes.
Of course I was just being sarcastic.
But I don't think it's proven at all that higher taxes always result in lower tax receipts for the government (or vice versa for that matter). To the extent that tax cuts increase the national debt I'm not they're helpful.
In the 1950's until 1965 the top marginal tax rate was around 90%. That didn't seem to hurt the economy that much. Until Reagan the top marginal tax rate was 74% (I think). We still did ok. Clinton increase taxes a bit and yet the economy still did well under his administration.
If they move outside of the country then they have to go through import controls to ship it back. That would give them a better chance to catch the tax cheaters because of the government scrutiny.
Of course once a shipment crosses a national border there are import controls that take effect so you can't avoid it.
Citation needed.
In my experience the difference between government and private enterprise isn't that government is more wasteful and inefficient but that it has to publicize it when it screws up and you usually don't hear that much about it in private enterprise until it reaches the spectacular level like last years Wall Street melt down.
So by your formula reducing taxes to zero would result in infinite government income. Yeah, right!
Well, roads are largely paid for by gas taxes which I would argue is a form of sales tax.
OR doesn't get charged a sales tax from Dell. That's because we don't have a sales tax.
I don't think the clearing house needs to be federal. The different states and other taxing authorities could just get together and form one as a central service that any retailer could use.
... base the tax on the seller's location...
I like that. It would be a boon for my state (Oregon) which doesn't have a sales tax. We'd get a bunch of businesses locating here so they didn't have to pay sales taxes (just the 9% income tax).
Anything that is shipped across national borders is subject to import rules and any tax due can be collected at the border. That's not possible between states in the US.
The justification is that as a condition of allowing a business to make sales in the state they can require them to collect the sales/use tax. If the business doesn't want to collect for them then they can refrain from sales in the state.
I would propose a sales tax clearing house. The tax rate could be determined based on the zip code of delivery. So an e-tail business could just send the amount, zip code and product category (because some tax rates are based on what you are buying) to the clearing house and it would return the amount of tax to bill. Then each month you send a payment to the clearing house in the amount of tax you billed that month and it takes care of distributing the payments to the various tax authorities. It could be financed by skimming a small amount off the top.
The Japanese managed to launch 2 attacks on the US mainland early in WW2 (Sept. 1942) dropping incendiary bombs near Bandon, Oregon in an attempt to start forest fires. See the Lookout Air Raids. They were able to recover the airplanes without a problem and the pilot Nobuo Fujita lived until 1997.
Actually both federal seats that were up for election went to Democrats including a seat in upstate New York that hadn't gone D since the Civil War. It was 2 Governorships that went to the R's.
That only works if the driver who caused the accident can pay the bill. If you get hit by an uninsured driver who has no assets you can sue them all you want and you still won't get much money out of them.
Trains run fine on electricity. Many of the train systems in Europe and Japan are run from electricity supplied by overhead wires.
Well, actually extending Medicare to everyone would reduce the per-capita costs of it. Right now Medicare covers people during what is generally the most expensive time of their lives in terms of medical costs.
We already have national lunch insurance. It's called food stamps.
The Post Office, the military, Social Security, Medicare, the Food & Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control, the National Institutes for Health, NASA, the USDA, NOAA...
They all have their problems but IMHO they all do more good than harm.
I suspect you'll probably sneer at my including Social Security and Medicare in there but without them millions of retired people wouldn't have a basic standard of living and reasonable medical care.
No, I think he was referring to the Nobel Prize in Economics which is a separate group from the Nobel Peace Prize. The Peace Prize is determined by a committee of Norwegians and awarded in Oslo.
Adults also know that the quality of their life is directly dependent on the quality of the community/civilization they live in. They understand that the "free market" is not capable of solving all of the problems of the community and that government is the means whereby we try to solve those problems. As Donne said "No man is an island".
Well, I actually work for Garmin so I could get the Astro for about $350 including the dog collar.
So buy a Garmin and help save my job :-) Actually I work in the aviation side of the business and we're doing ok so far.
How ironic is it that the Republicans are now the party of southern white racists?