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To: steve harris who wrote (350177)	9/10/2007 8:41:51 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572363

re: Nothing ever changes... No, are you as much of a perve as the rest of your party?

To: steve harris who wrote (350177)	9/10/2007 9:10:46 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572363

...That pretty much gets to the heart of this. Or, as NBER chief Martin Feldstein puts it: financing additional government spending by an across the board rise in all marginal tax rates would make the cost per dollar of government spending equal to $1.76. These two facts — that the actual revenue is only 57 percent of the static gain and that the deadweight loss is 76 cents per dollar of revenue — should be central to any consideration of tax policy. And yet they are not. It is possible that the state can make its citizens better off by taking $1.76 to spend $1.00, if those very expensive dollar bills are spent on highly valuable public goods folks can’t coordinate to provide privately. But I reckon this kind of bona fide public good is a pretty small part of the existing budget. Also, people’s money is, well, their money, and it is obviously wrong for other people to take it from them absent a special justification. If the government is taking more than is justified, then it should cut taxes and cut spending. It happens that the government is taking more than is justified. So it should cut taxes and cut spending... willwilkinson.net meganmcardle.theatlantic.com