BOHANON & CUROTT: No enthusiasm for cuts among those not taxed
it looks like the GOP will do what it has always done: Offer zero taxes to an increasing proportion of the population to buy growth-enhancing tax cuts elsewhere.
it looks like the GOP will do what it has always done: Offer zero taxes to an increasing proportion of the population to buy growth-enhancing tax cuts elsewhere.
The pilgrims discovered the hard way the weaknesses in the communal-property-rights model.
National defense is a public good that must be provided by the government. Yet the holiday season offers ample examples of public goods that need not be.
I enjoyed reading the article “No enthusiasm for cuts among those not taxed” by Cecil Bohanon and Nick Curott in the Indianapolis Business Journal [Nov. 20]. An additional note that I have never heard mentioned on the topic is the impact of refundable earned income tax credits. I don’t think most people are aware that many low-income individuals […]
I think most people do not realize the difference between Social Security/Medicare, which everyone pays, and income taxes.
The movement to modify licensing requirements for public schoolteachers is coming to Indiana. It’s about time.
the controversy over the Yellowwood Back Country Area in Brown County raises an interesting question: Should conflicts over public land be resolved through a political or market process?
What we like best about the new federal tax law is that it reduces marginal tax rates for almost all taxpayers, both individual and corporate.
Bitcoin is a speculative asset. People demand bitcoins today because they expect someone will pay a higher price tomorrow. We have seen this movie before.
The best way to reform Medicaid is to decentralize the decision-making process to allow states to experiment with many options.
Just how much should public officials offer in their bid to lure Amazon?
A statistic presented to buttress a particular political argument can, through a simple mathematical transformation, support an entirely different point of view.
Like with any policy, some benefit and some lose from immigration, but the overall effect is positive.
Why are unpopular regulations passed in the first place? And why are they so persistent? Three words: special interest politics.
An underappreciated principle of economics is the fungibility of resources.
Apparently, Trump thinks he is declaring war on foreigners. But in reality, he is declaring war on Americans.
Any choice you make implies you forgo some alternative. The value of that next-best alternative is the cost of the choice.
the district’s problems illustrate a larger issue: How should different levels of government work together to provide K-12 education?
The banking system might finally get some relief from the burdensome overregulation that has hamstrung the economy for almost a decade.
The capitalist economy is facilitating a sharing revolution in transportation that would make Karl Marx blush.