With all the talk about taxing the rich, we hear very little
talk about taxing the poor. Yet the marginal tax rate on someone
living in poverty can sometimes be higher than the marginal tax
rate on millionaires.
While it is true that nearly half the households in the country pay no income tax at all, the apparently simple word "tax" has many complications that can be a challenge for even professional economists to untangle.
If you define a tax as only those things that the government chooses to call a tax, you get a radically different picture from what you get when you say, "If it looks like a tax, acts like a tax and takes away your resources like a tax, then it's a tax."
Read more: http://spectator.org/archives/2012/12/11/taxing-the-poor
While it is true that nearly half the households in the country pay no income tax at all, the apparently simple word "tax" has many complications that can be a challenge for even professional economists to untangle.
If you define a tax as only those things that the government chooses to call a tax, you get a radically different picture from what you get when you say, "If it looks like a tax, acts like a tax and takes away your resources like a tax, then it's a tax."
Read more: http://spectator.org/archives/2012/12/11/taxing-the-poor
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