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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
insistence upon limited government, especially in the area of economic regulation, has greater intellec- tual and popular … regulation? The subject itself poses certain major difficulties for political theories which, whatever their differences, at … least call for both a “minimalstate’’andasharplimitationuponthescopeandthelevel of government activity. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011141239
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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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Competition and Monopoly in World Oil Markets: The Role of the International Oil Companies
Mancke, Richard B. - In: Cato Journal 1 (1981) 1, pp. 107-127
Since the early 1870s, when John D. Rockefeller began assembling Standard Oil of New Jersey, the large, usually American-owned and -managed, oil companies have been the most famous and con- troversial business enterprises in the United States as well as throughout most of the world.’ Even...
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Bureaucracy, Entrepreneurship, and Natural Resources: Witless Policy and the Barrier Islands
Siffin, William J. - In: Cato Journal 1 (1981) 1, pp. 293-311
There are about 1,605,000 acres in about 300 barrier islands and spits in the United States.’ They rim the Atlantic and Gulf coasts from Cape Cod to the Mexican border and vary from small units of 50 acres or less to islands of more than 100,000 acres. Some are lit- tle more than elevated...
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The Ratification of the Federal Income Tax Amendment
Buenker, John D. - In: Cato Journal 1 (1981) 1, pp. 183-223
has styled the “revolution in taxationâ€â€”the drive at all levels of government to create a tax system that was more …; the claim that “only the rich will pay†was heard in state legislatures across the land... …
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Assessment of efficiency of rendering services in the sphere of health care
Skobelin, Oleg - In: Published Papers (2012)
quality of governance is recognized not high enough. And if the effectiveness of government programs still considered quite …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010897122
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The Principles of Environmental Protection: The Case of Superfund
Epstein, Richard - In: Cato Journal 2 (1982) 1, pp. 9-53
insistence upon limited government, especially in the area of economic regulation, has greater intellec- tual and popular … regulation? The subject itself poses certain major difficulties for political theories which, whatever their differences, at … least call for both a “minimalstate’’andasharplimitationuponthescopeandthelevel of government activity. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010633437
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Land Conflicts in the Context of the Prospects of the Agricultural Sector in the North Caucasus
Varshaver, Evgeni; Kazenin, Konstantin - In: Published Papers (2014) May
government and in high places, now is mainly due to dissatisfaction with the land. Land was responsible for a large part of the …Conflicts and disputes related to land occur in the North Caucasus with great regularity. This is especially true of … status of the land is not defined, which means investors in the region will come with great caution. Currently the state has …
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