Download or read book The Death of the Income Tax written by Daniel S. Goldberg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-30 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Death of the Income Tax explains how the current income tax is needlessly complex. Daniel Goldberg proposes that the solution to the problems of the current income tax is completely replacing it with a progressive consumption tax collected electronically at the point of sale.
Download or read book Death and Taxes written by David Dodge and published by Diversion Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A CPA in 1940s San Francisco searches for his partner’s killer in this witty and “hard-hitting” mystery by the author of the classic To Catch a Thief (Time). The first in the series of noir mysteries starring hard-drinking accountant Whit Whitney, Death and Taxes follows the calculating amateur detective as he looks into the murder of George MacLeod—a top tax consultant who was a close colleague of Whitney’s, at least until his body was stuffed into a bank vault. A fast-paced, sharp-witted tale involving everything from pretty blondes to bootleggers to tangles with the Treasury Department, Death and Taxes “winds up at a lightning pace . . . Fast and easy to read” (New York Herald Tribune). “Rapid-fire action in the manner of Dashiell Hammett.” —The Detroit News
Download or read book The Death of the Income Tax written by Daniel S. Goldberg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-15 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Death of the Income Tax explains how the current income tax is needlessly complex, contains perverse incentives against saving and investment, fails to use modern technology to ease compliance and collection burdens, and is subject to micromanaging and mismanaging by Congress. Daniel Goldberg proposes that the solution to the problems of the current income tax is completely replacing it with a progressive consumption tax collected electronically at the point of sale.
Download or read book Death and Taxes written by Mike Canet and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-13 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Taxed to Death written by Lawrence a. Hunter Ph. D. and published by . This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Lawrence A. Hunter is president of the Social Security Institute, a 501(c) (4) non-profi t, seniors' advocacy organization. He has written a weekly column for Forbes and regularly published in other major newspapers, periodicals and done research for numerous think tanks. He gives frequent speeches and regularly appears on television and radio. During his time in Washington politics, Dr. Hunter was a White House policy advisor to President Ronald Reagan, chief economist of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, chief of staff of the congressional Joint Economic Committee and chief economist, speech writer and political advisor for Jack Kemp at Empower America. Prior to that, Dr. Hunter was an assistant professor at the University of Maryland-College Park. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. He is married to Georganna F. Hunter, the father of nine children and seven grandchildren. "Magnificent. . .the best single piece that's ever been written on the income tax and the IRS." Richard W. Rahn, Ph.D., American Political Economist & Author of The End of Money Income taxes are political and economic weapons of mass destruction used by governments on their own people. To paraphrase Chief Justice John Marshall, the power to tax income is the power to subvert society. Taxed To Death is both entertaining reading and serious scholarship, written in popular prose for the non-specialist reader. Hunter masterfully weaves together economic analysis, public choice theory, political science, history and journalism into a tapestry that exposes the far-reaching, pernicious effects the income tax and the IRS have had on America during the past century. He demonstrates vividly how income taxation adversely affects not only those who pay the tax but also how it shackles to the bottom rungs of the economic ladder those who earn too little to pay it. The IRS is a bureaucratic despot, completely out of control and in principle uncontrollable. But, for all that Americans find loathsome and despicable about the IRS, it is merely the symptom of a larger problem-the income tax itself-and a deeper pathology-a spiritual poverty and an unconquered fear within the American people that produce a craving for the hive-the collective-and a willingness to give up their individuality and God-given rights to become worker bees subservient to the guardians of the "greater good" of the collective, which only they (the guardians) get to define. Americans face a choice: Allow the collectivization of America to continue until the process is complete and then wait for the collective to self destruct the way Communism did. Or, Americans can take an important first step now to restore personal privacy, individual liberty and economic opportunity, going right to the core of the problem and demolishing the foundation on which the collective sits by repealing the income tax and the 16th Amendment and abolishing the IRS.
Download or read book Death by a Thousand Cuts written by Michael J. Graetz and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-11 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fast-paced book by Yale professors Michael Graetz and Ian Shapiro unravels the following mystery: How is it that the estate tax, which has been on the books continuously since 1916 and is paid by only the wealthiest two percent of Americans, was repealed in 2001 with broad bipartisan support? The mystery is all the more striking because the repeal was not done in the dead of night, like a congressional pay raise. It came at the end of a multiyear populist campaign launched by a few individuals, and was heralded by its supporters as a signal achievement for Americans who are committed to the work ethic and the American Dream. Graetz and Shapiro conducted wide-ranging interviews with the relevant players: members of congress, senators, staffers from the key committees and the Bush White House, civil servants, think tank and interest group representatives, and many others. The result is a unique portrait of American politics as viewed through the lens of the death tax repeal saga. Graetz and Shapiro brilliantly illuminate the repeal campaign's many fascinating and unexpected turns--particularly the odd end result whereby the repeal is slated to self-destruct a decade after its passage. They show that the stakes in this fight are exceedingly high; the very survival of the long standing American consensus on progressive taxation is being threatened. Graetz and Shapiro's rich narrative reads more like a political drama than a conventional work of scholarship. Yet every page is suffused by their intimate knowledge of the history of the tax code, the transformation of American conservatism over the past three decades, and the wider political implications of battles over tax policy.
Download or read book The Death of the Income Tax or the Rise of America s Universal Wage Tax written by Edward J. McCaffery and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent proposals from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D NY) to raise the top marginal tax rates under the income tax, and from Senator Elizabeth Warren (D Mass), to add a stand-alone wealth tax to the existing mix of taxes, are promising beginnings. They have burst forth from a veritable desert of progressive tax alternatives in the public political discussion. But both sets of ideas suffer from an allegiance to the status quo; both operate within the existing paradigm of nominally attempting to tax “income” and “wealth” - wealth transfers, in the case of the status quo, wealth itself, in the case of Warren's proposal. This Article examines that status quo to show that the “income” tax is dead, replaced by a universal wage tax in which payroll taxes add on to a wage/income tax to highly, and inescapably, burden labor while wealth is left off the hook of taxation altogether. This Article traces the century-long movement of our tax system from an income tax to a wage tax, culminating, to date, in President Trump's Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. Liberals and progressives must change the way they think about tax in order to get non-taxpaying billionaires, such as the President and his son-in-law, to pay anything at all.
Download or read book The Death of Liberty written by David Thomas Roberts and published by Defiance Press. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1776, the colonists declared Independence from England in large part due to the many onerous Acts thrust upon them by Parliament including the Stamp Act in 1765 the Tea Act in 1773. The combination of these burdensome Acts on the colonies coupled with "Intolerable Acts" that severely limited the colonists Liberties, America rebelled. America won her liberty finally in 1783, only to see American's freedoms put in a permanent state of peril with the successful progressive class warfare argument that resulted in the 16th Amendment in 1913. Politicians and government bureaucrats discovered, is they can manipulate the 71,000+ page tax code to reward their cronies and punish their enemies. The legacy of the IRS is one of scandals, malfeasance, criminality, incompetence and terror - yet Americans, for the most part tolerate it. Why? The history of IRS abuses of common citizens is legendary, and the stories you will read in this book are chilling. Why has the IRS become "weaponized", spending $11 million on guns and ammo in the last 10 years? Surely Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson and Samuel Adams would have never let such an abusive form of government exist in the United States. Why do we?
Download or read book Income Taxes and The Hand of Death written by Guy Morrison Walker and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How Money Walks How 2 Trillion Moved Between the States and Why It Matters written by Travis H. Brown and published by How Money Walks. This book was released on 2013 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1995 and 2010, millions of Americans moved between the states, taking with them over $2 trillion in adjusted gross incomes. Two trillion dollars is equivalent to the GDP of California, the ninth largest in the world. It’s a lot of money. Some states, like Florida, saw tremendous gains ($86.4 billion), while others, like New York, experienced massive losses ($58.6 billion). People moved, and they took their working wealth with them. The question is, why? Why did Americans move so much of their income from state to state? Which states benefitted and which states suffered? And why does it matter? Using official statistics from the IRS, How Money Walks explores the hows, whys, and impact of this massive movement of American working wealth. Consider these facts. Between 1995 and 2010: The nine states with no personal income taxes gained $146.2 billion in working wealth The nine states with the highest personal income tax rates lost $107.4 billion The 10 states with the lowest per capita state-local tax burdens gained $69.9 billion The 10 states with the highest per capita state-local tax burdens lost $139 billion Money—and people—moved from high-tax states to low-tax ones. And the tax that seemed to matter the most? The personal income tax. The states with no income taxes gained the greatest wealth, while the states with the highest income taxes lost the most. Why does this matter? Because the robust presence of working wealth is the leading indicator of economic health. The states that gained working wealth are growing and thriving. The states that lost working wealth lost their most precious cargo—their tax base—and the consequences are dire: stagnation, deterioration, an economic death spiral as they continue to raise taxes and lose people, businesses, and working wealth. The numbers don't lie. ___________________ “When I read How Money Walks, I thought, ‘It’s about time.’ Finally, we have a book that addresses one of our nation’s most critical (yet rarely discussed) fiscal issues: the migration of working wealth as a direct result of personal income tax rates. Brown’s book paints a clear portrait of where money goes and why. How Money Walks should be required reading for anyone who wants to understand why some states struggle to retain people and businesses while others welcome billions of new dollars each year.” Dr. Arthur Laffer Founder and chairman, Laffer Associates and Laffer Investments Former economic advisor to President Ronald Reagan
Download or read book Federal Taxation of Income Estates and Gifts written by Boris I. Bittker and published by Warren Gorham & Lamont. This book was released on 1999 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 3 also issed as rev. 3rd ed. ; rev. 3rd edition of other vols. not planned.
Download or read book Perspectives on Tax Reform written by Richard E. Wagner and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1974 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Case studies on different topics: examination of place of transfer taxation in the US revenue system; loopholes in the federal income tax arising from exemptions, exclusions, deductions and credits; discussion of the effects of introduction of value added tax and description and analysis of the actual working of the VAT in the EEC.
Download or read book The Interesting History of Income Tax written by William J. Federer and published by Amerisearch, Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Interesting History of Income Tax William J. Federer "The only things certain are death and taxes" - Benjamin Franklin Yet few know America's interesting history of Income Tax, such as: *1787 - U.S. Constitution prohibited a "direct" Federal tax *1862 - "Revenue Tax" on incomes went into effect to finance the Union during the Civil War *1895 - Supreme Court made Income Tax unconstitutional *Woodrow Wilson thought tariffs on imports caused wars, so he worked to replace them with an Income Tax. *1913 - Income Tax was only a 1% tax on the top 1% richest people in America. *1943 - Paycheck Withholding began as an emergency effort to get funds to finance WWII. John F. Kennedy - "Lower rates of taxation will stimulate economic activity and so raise the levels of personal and corporate income as to yield within a few years an increased flow of revenues to the Federal Government." (Annual Budget Message, Jan. 17, 1963) Thomas Jefferson - "It is an encouragement to proceed as we have begun in substituting economy for taxation" (2nd Annual Message, 1802) (176 pages, includes pictures)
Download or read book Death by a Thousand Cuts written by Michael J. Graetz and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fast-paced book by two Yale professors unravels the following mystery: How is it that the estate tax, which has been on the books continuously since 1916 and is paid by only the wealthiest two percent of Americans, was repealed in 2001 with broad bipartisan support?
Download or read book The Flat Tax written by Robert E. Hall and published by Hoover Press. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new and updated edition of The Flat Tax—called "the bible of the flat tax movement" by Forbes—explains what's wrong with our present tax system and offers a practical alternative. Hall and Rabushka set forth what many believe is the most fair, efficient, simple, and workable tax reform plan on the table: tax all income, once only, at a uniform rate of 19 percent.
Download or read book The Death of the Income Tax written by Daniel S. Goldberg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Death of the Income Tax explains how the current income tax is needlessly complex, contains perverse incentives against saving and investment, fails to use modern technology to ease compliance and collection burdens, and is subject to micromanaging and mismanaging by Congress. Daniel Goldberg proposes that the solution to the problems of the current income tax is completely replacing it with a progressive consumption tax collected electronically at the point of sale.
Download or read book Fair Not Flat written by Edward J. McCaffery and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone knows that the current tax system is unfair. Some of the richest people in America pay no tax, while a huge share of the tax burden falls on the rest of us. A mere glance at the tax code confirms that it is far too complex, with volumes of rules that no ordinary person could possibly comprehend. What is to be done? Some conservatives have called for a so-called flat tax. But a flat tax is not necessarily a simple tax, and "flat" means "more" for most taxpayers: a rise in middle-class taxes to finance tax cuts for the rich. Is there another choice? In clear, easy-to-understand language, Edward J. McCaffery proposes a straightforward and fair alternative. A "fair not flat" tax that is consistent and progressive would tax spending, not income and savings. And if it were collected at its lower levels through a national sales tax, most people would not have to file a return. A supplemental tax on spending for the wealthiest individuals would make the national sales tax progressive. Under McCaffery's system, a family of four would pay no tax on their first $20,000 in spending, and 15 percent on the next $60,000. Only the few families who spend more than $80,000 a year would be subject to the supplemental tax. Necessities would be taxed less than ordinary and luxury items. No one would be taxed directly on savings. The estate and gift or so-called death tax would be abolished, for the simple reason that dead people don't spend. The "fair not flat" tax would fall on heirs when and as they spend their good fortune. Perhaps best of all, most Americans would not have to fill out tax returns. Simpler, more efficient, fairer, and more reflective of America's current social values, McCaffery's "fair not flat" tax could help get us out of the tax mess that politicians and special interests have gotten us into, improving the whole country in the process. Read Fair Not Flat to find out how. “In Fair Not Flat, Mr. McCaffery lays out the case for a consumption tax. He does so in a reader-friendly way, presenting his argument with very few footnotes, equations or technical terms. The consumption of the book, so to speak, is not at all taxing. And its argument is well worth pondering.”—Bruce Bartlett, Wall Street Journal
