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The IRS and Civil Liberties: Powers of Search and Seizure
Hamowy, Ronald - In: Cato Journal 1 (1981) 1, pp. 225-275
of en- forcement of the tax laws. Of all federal government agencies, the Internal Revenue Service IIRS) is permitted the … greatest latitude in its relations with citizens, to the point where the authority of government directly conflicts with the …
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United States Energy Policy: The Translucent Hand and the Art of Muddling Through
Erickson, Edward W. - In: Cato Journal 1 (1981) 2, pp. 609-627
The United States has been searching for some years for a viable energy policy. Energy policy became a matter of prominence in the early 1970s, when world oil prices began to climb and OPEC emerged as a front-page phenomenon and a familiar topic on the evening news. This is not to say that there...
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The Consumption Tax and Supply-Side Economics: Some Short-Term Revenue Effects
Communications Author-Email: - In: Cato Journal 1 (1981) 2, pp. 629-632
immediate (short-term) increases in government revenue; (2) the prohibitive zone is larger than Laffer originally hypothesized …
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Limitations of the Laffer Curve as a Justification for Tax Cuts
Henderson, David - In: Cato Journal 1 (1981) 1, pp. 45-52
positive output effects without also cutting government spending? 4. Should we let our answer to the second and third questions …
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Proportionality, Justice, and the Value-Added Tax
Baird, Charles W. - In: Cato Journal 1 (1981) 2, pp. 405-420
existing taxes stand apart from the danger that the government will merely add it on to present taxes, I don’t believe we …
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A Comment on the Laffer Model
Moszer, Max - In: Cato Journal 1 (1981) 1, pp. 23-44
One feels constrained to step lightly in an examination of the Laf- fer curve. Laffer contends that higher tax rates, by removing incen- tive, will discourage work, lead to less output, and thereby reduce government’s total tax revenue. Surely the contention that lower tax rates will...
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The Principles of Environmental Protection: The Case of Superfund
Epstein, Richard A. - In: Cato Journal 2 (1982) 1, pp. 9-53
least call for both a “minimalstate’’andasharplimitationuponthescopeandthelevel of government activity. This … insistence upon limited government, especially in the area of economic regulation, has greater intellec- tual and popular … intervention in environmental matters, even by those who see themselves as hostile to big government... …
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Bureaucratic Incentives, Social Efficiency, and the Conflict in Federal Land Policy
Ott, Mack - In: Cato Journal 1 (1981) 2, pp. 585-607
Economic analyses of bureaucracy have charged that public pro- duction tends to be more costly than optimal;’ the extra cost may be due to either technological or allocational ineuficiency.2 Conversely, the standard theory of regulation asserts that regulated industries produce too little...
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Resolving the Tragedy of the Commons by Creating Private Property Rights in Wildlife
Smith, Robert J. - In: Cato Journal 1 (1981) 2, pp. 439-468
During man’s relatively brief existence on this planet,he has relied on the bounty of its flora and fauna for his existence. He has harvested wildlife for food, clothing, shelter, medicines, beasts of burden, pets, and companionship. Over most of this period, this harvesting and...
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“Taxation in England during the Industrial Revolutionâ€: A Comment
McCloskey, Donald N. - In: Cato Journal 1 (1981) 1, pp. 155-159
Max Hartwell’s paper gives us a picture of the good old days. Hav- ing just paid my taxes, or at any rate the federal-income-taxportion of them, Jam not inclined to view favorablyanyleveloftaxesother than none at all. Still, the paper portrays the closest we’ve come in modern times...
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