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yanqui
Dec 8, 2012, 9:26 AM
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camhead wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: yanqui wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: As an aside: it doesn't take much to reach that 57% in Sweden (about US$80K), which is apparently about 20% of the population. Which was my point about knowing people who have reached it. With such a high tax rate, how can it be that Sweden has a healthy budget surplus and an economy that in many ways is outperforming the rest of the Eurozone and the US? For example: http://www.guardian.co.uk/...ontrasting-economies Can anyone of you Republicoids explain how this fits into your theory that low taxes for the wealthy and budget cuts for government are so good for the economy? exactly This: http://en.wikipedia.org/...round_the_world#List And this: http://www.marketwatch.com/...ate-to-22-2012-09-13 The United States has the lowest personal income taxes and highest corporate taxes in the first world. Seriously, if you were a company, would you move here, given that you have to pay more taxes than in Europe, AND provide health insurance, AND draw off of a potential workforce with dwindling math and science skills?
There has been some interesting theoretical work in economics in an area known as "tax incidence". The problem is: who really ends up "paying" for certain taxes? Corporate taxes, in particular. Of course this depends on many variables. However, even though the actual percentages are highly debatable, I think most economists would agree that workers, in fact, carry some part of the burden for corporate taxes. At any rate, I would certainly agree that corporate taxes are a less than transparent way to tax the wealthy.
However, when it comes to corporate taxes in the US you might also want to consider this:
http://ctj.org/...s_corporations_p.php
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