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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Road Walker who wrote (13537)2/23/2010 1:42:47 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 
I'm in no way conceding that wage and salary workers, at the margin of their tax rate, contribute less to economic activity.

I'm not sure what you mean by that.

I'm not saying that the economic benefit of the marginal dollar's worth of labor is clearly lower than the benefit of the marginal dollar of investment. (I'm not sure if that's a reply to your point, its a reply to what I think you might mean, If you think I'm miscatorgizing your point by implication in my reply than sorry, but it was an honest effort not a deliberate straw man.)

I am saying

1 - That we should consider the economic impact of taxes as a major concern (which isn't a statement about what those impacts will be, only about the criteria for considering tax rates).

and going back to my earlier point

2 - The impact of marginal tax rates on the next dollar of investment is greater than the impact on the next value of labor. A major (but not the only) reason for this is that money is more mobile than people.

That's the way it was phrased. "Rather than".

Its a false dilemma if the ideas is that we MUST pick one criteria, and just one criteria, with it being impossible to give some weight to both, or to any other ideas, but I really doubt that is what Lane meant.

Its not a false dilemma if the idea is that we should pick one of the two criteria exclusively, or (as I think Lane meant), that we should give heavy weight to a specific criteria (in this case economic impact).
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