This means teaching folks on the left that tax policy affects incentives to earn and report taxable income.

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Arbitrary apportionment erodes incentives for investment in jurisdictions with better tax policy, undermining tax competition and thereby leading to an increase in global tax burdens.

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So, kickstarting the economy into long-term sustained growth with pro-growth tax policy, reduced government waste and other economic incentives will generate more revenue than will increasing capital gains taxes, which would discourage such economic growth.

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The Tuesday tariff is yet another measure aimed at protecting local industry following sector-specific tax incentives (like the auto industry) and a more aggressive intervention policy to maintain the foreign exchange rate between the U.S. dollar and the Brazilian real at weak levels.

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"People don't oppose the tax credit, but they oppose the offsets that are going to pay for it, such as rolling back tax incentives the oil and gas industry got in 2005, " says Lowell Ungar, director of policy for the Alliance to Save Energy.

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Rather than providing companies with incentives to take on more debt through stock buybacks, acquisitions or leveraged buyouts, our tax policy should encourage healthy growth and a strong economy through equity investments that can provide income to investors.

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Or reduced to the core policy choices: does reaching the promised land of renewables require more basic research, or more tax incentives?

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