The vast majority of tax scholars and policy experts agree that awarding a super-low tax rate to this one form of labor income is completely unjustified as a policy matter.

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Reagan's low tax rates, a vigorous foreign policy and other reforms transformed our economy.

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His policies of stable money, low tax rates and a muscular military and foreign policy enabled the U.S. to quickly recover and surge ahead so powerfully that 20 years later the U.S. share of global GDP had increased.

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But it would also cut across another new policy, which imposes income tax for the first time on many low-paid workers, a plan which most economists expect will kill off up to 1m jobs.

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So can rational tax policy: keeping marginal rates on corporate profits, individual income and investment gains low to encourage hiring and capital deployment.

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The course, called consumer finance, will look at topics ranging from using tax policy to boost the savings rate to how banks can deliver better products for low-income individuals.

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As Eric and I discuss in the paper, lawmakers should therefore consider other policy ingredients per capita credits, for example that could help protect low-income households and potentially make a carbon-for-corporate tax swap a more balanced policy option .

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Thus, the new policy aims to curb production of low-tech goods (like cheap plastic trinkets) by reducing the tax rebate for exporters more than 50% in many cases.

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He might start with a tutorial on tax policy using his own return as Exhibit A. It's likely that he enjoys his relatively low rate because most of his income is derived from investments, which are taxed at 15% for individuals (after they are first taxed at the business level), rather than wages, which are subject to a top rate of 35%.

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