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IPFS News Link • TAXES: Federal

All Taxes Undermine Prosperity...

• https://fee.org, Daniel J. Mitchell

When I write about the economics of fiscal policy and need to give people an easy-to-understand explanation on how government spending affects growth, I share my four-part video series.

But other than a much-too-short primer on growth and taxation from 2016, I don't have something similar for tax policy. So I have to direct people to various columns about marginal tax ratesdouble taxationtax favoritismtax reformcorporate taxation, and tax competition.

Today's column isn't going to be a comprehensive analysis of taxes and growth, but it is going to augment the 2016 primer by taking a close look at how some taxes are more destructive than others.

And what makes today's column noteworthy is that I'll be citing the work of left-leaning international bureaucracies.

Let's look at a study from the OECD.

…taxes…affect the decisions of households to save, supply labour and invest in human capital, the decisions of firms to produce, create jobs, invest and innovate, as well as the choice of savings channels and assets by investors.


www.universityofreason.com/a/29887/KWADzukm