Wednesday, April 28

Don't fear the invisible tax?

Derek Thompson on The Value Added Tax: What You Need To Know
Conservatives also worry that "invisible" taxes like a VAT would enable the government to grow bigger. The evidence does not agree. "Tax visibility is empirically unrelated to the amount of taxation and government spending," economist Casey Mulligan concluded.
Well, there goes one of my worries.

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