Progressive taxation deters our best producers and exacting double taxation against investment income drives capital away.
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Quite apart from incentive effects, progressive taxation has contributed to hideous complexity in the tax code.
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More progressive spending, more progressive taxation, more progressive education, child care, you name it.
For the likes of Mr Krugman, progressive taxation and redistribution are needed to offset labour's position of weakness.
A. Seligman, progressive taxation goes back to Athens during the sixth century B.
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Progressive taxation and cumbersome red tape may somewhat constrain greed, but these deny others the benefit of their efforts.
We should also invest more in education, for example, but progressive taxation helps.
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The Uneasy Case for Progressive Taxation, an influential work addressing our tax system.
Mr Clarke argues that the best way to create "a more progressive taxation regime" is through raising income tax itself.
Progressive taxation is not the sole solution to extreme economic inequality in the US, but it can mitigate its effects.
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Progressive taxation has survived as a dogma that the rich should pay higher tax rates simply because they have more money.
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Why any form of progressive taxation is thought to be a tax break for the rich is something of a mystery.
Defenders of progressive taxation usually make a utilitarian argument.
Many of Hull's basic political convictions -- his belief in progressive taxation, internationalism, and free trade -- were bequeathed to Albert Gore, and then to son Al, but also notable was the style that was passed along as well.
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They will ask for 1 trillion euro investment into infrastructure -- less than half of the public money handed to the banks, according to estimates across Europe and the U.S. They will also ask for climate action, progressive taxation measures, a cessation of the attacks on collective bargaining and a universal social protection floor.
Today's system of progressive but flawed taxation of income must, they say, be ripped up by its roots.
This makes the US Federal taxation system considerably more progressive than those of most other OECD countries.
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Have we the courage and the will to face up to the immorality and discrimination of the progressive tax, and demand a return to traditional proportionate taxation?
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