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When You Should Support the Firing of All Workers

Posted in Economic Illiteracy, Environment, Taxation, You Can't Have it Both Ways on Apr 13th, 2011

There are some folks in the environmental community who view taxes as a method for dealing with pollution problems as fundamentally immoral. Not only do they view pollution as a moral wrong (instead of as a cost) they also believe that putting taxes in places is akin to giving firms “licenses to pollute.” Why? Taxes […]

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Warren and Bill Over Coffee

Posted in Paternalism, Socialism, Taxation on Jul 1st, 2008

From a conversation between Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, Buffett remarks: what if you had three percent or something like that of the corporate income tax totally devoted to a fund that would be administered by some representatives of corporate America to be used in intelligent ways for the long-term benefit of society, This group-who […]

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