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Daily Archive for September 30th, 2011

Crackdown on “criminal” mothers who desperately try to enroll their kids in better schools: An African-American mother of two, Ms. Williams-Bolar last year used her father’s address to enroll her two daughters in a better public school outside of their neighborhood. After spending nine days behind bars charged with grand theft, the single mother was […]

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In a few posts, we’ll begin digging through the evidence on taxation and economic growth. In the meantime, I just wanted to ask if you were familiar with: An Empirical Characterization of the Dynamic Effects of Changes in Government Spending and Taxes on Output? by Blanchard and Perotti? The Macroeconomic Effects of Tax Changes: Estimates […]

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Let’s recall the basic argument we are addressing: the reason the rich should pay more in taxes is that they were only able to earn their income by hiring people that went to (taxpayer funded) public schools, employ people who drove on (taxpayer funded) public roads and otherwise could not do what they do were […]

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