progressivity

How To Use progressivity In A Sentence

• Paying it back with a gradual increase in progressivity and closing loopholes is well within the realm of Keynesian theory. Matthew Yglesias » Budgeting, Pence-Style
• To explain why, let us start with the premise that the defenders of any progressive tax have to give some principled account of the optimal degree of tax progressivity.
• As an aside, how much of the decrease in progressivity comes from greater breadth of stock ownership -- if more people own stock, then more people are imputed to be be paying corporate income taxes -- not that such imputations have anything to do with actual tax incidence? The Distribution of Tax Burdens, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
• • FairTax's pre-bate ensures progressivity, poverty protection My Tax System, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
• And it would largely abandon the principle of progressivity, under which the wealthy pay higher rates than the middle class.
• The typical objection to a sales or value added tax is that it is regressive but I think you could maintain progressivity through tax credits for lower incomes. Matthew Yglesias » Tax Simplification and the Flat Tax
• DEATH TO ALL STEP-FUNCTIONS! the logic is clear and simple, to achieve true, well-defined progressivity, the increase in marginal utility of every infinitismal increment of income must be accounted for with a corresponding infinitismal increase in TAX RATE. Matthew Yglesias » Tax Simplification and the Flat Tax
• That is called progressivity and, of course, it is one of the most contentious aspects of any tax system. Marcelo Giugale: Why Is It So Difficult to Agree on Tax Reform?
• And it would largely abandon the principle of progressivity, under which the wealthy pay higher rates than the middle class.
• However, if progressivity is a requirement in the real world, the tax could be coupled with a standard per capita rebate that would, in effect, become a negative tax at lower income levels/consumption levels, and as you go up the income/consumption scale, the tax bite progressively gets to be greater. Taxes and Economics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty