Taxing Ourselves

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To follow the debate over U.S tax reform, the interested citizen is forced to choose between misleading sound bites and academic treatises Taxing Ourselves bridges the gap between the two by presenting in clear non technical language the key issues in U.S tax reform who should pay taxes, how taxes affect the economy and whether to reform or replace the current tax system The authors discuss various alternative proposals in detail, including the flat tax and the sales tax, but they are not advocates for any of them instead, they provide readers with the knowledge and the tools including an informative overview of the U.S tax system and an invaluable voter s guide to the tax policy debate to make their own informed choices about how American citizens should tax themselves The third edition of this popular guide has been extensively revised and updated to cover all changes in U.S tax laws through to May 2003 and to reflect the most recent research and relevant data It also provides new or expanded treatment of issues in the current debate, including tax cuts and whether they stimulate the economy, savings incentives, double taxation of corporate income, the estate tax, c New Download [ Taxing Ourselves ] by [ Joel Slemrod ] – kino-fada.fr This book is a great primer on how taxes work, why they are arranged as they are and who benefits from varying tax regimes It s fairly informative and attemptedly unbiased However, this book is incredibly boring As someone who loves to talk about taxes for fun and professionally, I thought the details were drab and elementary If you didn t like the topic or have a firm mind, you might get lost after Ch 3 Overall, it s not a bad book Taxes are boring as hell and the book provided the high This book is a great primer on how taxes work, why they are arranged as they are and who benefits from varying tax regimes It s fair...Any text that talks about taxation without emphasizing it social benefits and its egalitarian necessity is not worth the time spent on reading it, and, in general, any economic text that fail to place at its center the impact of its promotions on real people and their interactions outside its formulae is inherently biased against broad based relevance.To claim that taxes make us poorer is to ignore how infrastructure, Rd, public education, essential services, police, military, and so on, en Any text that talks about taxation without emphasizing it social benefits and its egalitarian necessity is not worth the time spent on reading it, and, in general, any economic text that fail to place at its center the impact of its promotions on real people and their interactions outside its formulae is inherently biased against broad based relevance.To claim that taxes make us poorer is to ignore how infrastructure, Rd, public education, essential services, police, military, and so on, enrich our lives.To claim that taxes infringe on innovation is to ignore the evidence showing that when taxation was at its highest in the US, productivity and growth achieved rates 50% higher than with lower taxes between late 40 and early 70 of the 20th century, tax rates were 91% and both growth and productivity at 3% since, taxes were lowered to about 35%,...Taxing Ourselves A Citizen s Guide to the Debate Over Taxes by Joel Slemrod and Jon Bakija covers the many different tax regimes from sales tax, to the Value Added Tax VAT , to a flat tax, progressive tax, and regressive tax, and also looks at hybrids between them This book was definitely not for me I found it incredibly dense and a little bit boring to read, but I slogged my way through The book mainly focuses on the application of taxes, not o...This should be required reading, but maybe I think this because I love tax policy it should at least be required reading for people who have opinions on tax policy and like to vote, and also for people who make tax policy worst review ever.Outstanding tax policy volume by America s leading expert on taxes Joel Slemrod and co author Jon Bakija Intended for the non technical reader, it is nevertheless full of well explained concepts and facts.The best book on taxes Ever And it s totally understandable if you don t have background in the subject.had to read this book for a class, but it was very informative and easy to understandif you needed any additional evidence of my abject dorkiness, here you go this book is awesome.This is a great introduction to the basics of tax policy Covers a lot of the economic aspects necessary for consideration in proposing reform Don t bother if you ve taken a class on revenue theory.A good hard read, but worth the effort

Taxing Ourselves
  • English
  • 04 September 2017
  • Paperback
  • 382 pages
  • 026269302X
  • Joel Slemrod
  • Taxing Ourselves