"According to the non-partisan Tax Foundation in 1997 Americans spent no less than $225 billion complying with the income tax"Hearsay.
According to a study by Jane Gravelle, an economist with the Congressional Research Service, and Larry Kotlikoff, an economist at Boston University, the corporate income tax costs the economy more in lost production than it raises in revenue for the Treasury. "Hearsay.
Dale Jorgenson, the chairman of the Economics Department at Harvard University, found that each extra dollar the government raises in revenue through the current system costs the economy $1.39.Hearsay.
Instead of posting these second-hand interpretations, why not post the source?
Go ahead. You are welcome to track down the source and find out that the studies actually do say what the references say they do.
That way we could see what the quoted people really said.
Sure can, so why don't you go track those studies down and provide us with links to them instead of demanding that others do your footwork for you.
I'm satified with the papers and Congressional testimony referencing the studies myself. You want more, go for it.
Instead of posting these second-hand interpretations, why not post the source?
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Didn't you just say something about a steaming pile of BS?
Instead of claiming that Geezers links are "second-hand interpretations", why not read the sources?
Sources have been posted dozens of times at minimum.
Every time a source is posted, your next step is to call them wrong. And we're all supposed to discount the published professional research papers of PhDs in economics and LLMs in taxation cuz you say so? Not.