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""The strong do as they can and the weak suffer what they must." --Thucydides The fate of the global economy hangs in the balance, and Europe is doing its utmost to undermine it, to destabilize America, and to spawn new forms of authoritarianism. Europe has dragged the world into hideous...
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We evaluate the effectiveness of a more progressive tax scheme in raising government revenues. We develop a life-cycle economy with heterogeneity and endogenous labor supply. Households face a progressive income tax schedule, mimicking the Federal Income tax, and flat-rate taxes that capture...
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What shapes the optimal degree of progressivity of the tax and transfer system? On the one hand, a progressive tax … earnings risk. At the same time, progressivity reduces incentives to work and to invest in skills, and aggravates the …, and market structure parameters influence the optimal degree of progressivity. A calibration for the U.S. economy …
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