Data extracted on 25 Jan 2016 01:06 UTC (GMT) from OECD.Stat.
Working Class American Families Face Marginal #Tax Rates up to 43.7%
28 Jan 2016 Leave a comment
in Public Choice, public economics Tags: laffer curve, rational irrationality, taxation and labour supply
Everybody agrees there is a Laffer Curve when it suits them.
The Left talks about poverty traps arising from means testing of social insurance and welfare benefits but denies flatly that high marginal tax rates will affect the labour supply of the rich and willing to do.
You cannot have it both ways.
British all-in average personal income tax rates at average wage by family type, 2000, 2007, 2014
28 Jan 2016 Leave a comment
in public economics Tags: British economy, family tax credits, family taxation, in-work tax credits, taxation and labour supply
Better than Sweden! All-in average personal income tax rates at average wage by New Zealand, Swedish and Danish family type
27 Jan 2016 Leave a comment
in politics - New Zealand, public economics Tags: Denmark, family tax credits, family taxation, in-work tax credits, Sweden, taxation and labour supply
New Zealand 2000, 2007 and 2014 all-in average personal income tax rates at average wage by family type
25 Jan 2016 Leave a comment
in politics - New Zealand, public economics Tags: family tax credits, family taxation, in-work tax credits, taxation and labour supply, working for families
In work tax credits for families in Working For Families certainly makes a difference to the after-tax, after government transfers living standards of the family on an average wage.
Data extracted on 25 Jan 2016 01:07 UTC (GMT) from OECD.Stat.
Nordic all-in average personal income tax rates at average wage by family type – corrected
25 Jan 2016 Leave a comment
in public economics Tags: Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, taxation and labour supply
British, French, German and Italian All-in average personal income tax rates at average wage by family type
23 Jan 2016 Leave a comment
in fiscal policy, macroeconomics, public economics Tags: British economy, France, Germany, Italy, taxation and labour supply
US, UK and Canadian all-in average personal income tax rates at average wage by family type
22 Jan 2016 Leave a comment
in labour economics, labour supply, politics - USA, public economics Tags: British economy, Canada, earned income tax credits, family tax credits, family taxation, taxation and labour supply
How Scandinavian Countries Pay for Their Government Spending
20 Nov 2015 1 Comment
in politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics Tags: Denmark, Finland, growth of government, Norway, Scandinavia, size of government, Sweden, taxation and entrepreneurship, taxation and investment, taxation and labour supply, welfare state
Eurosclerosis illustrated in the labour market
13 Nov 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, Euro crisis, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, politics - USA, public economics Tags: employment law, Eurosclerosis, France, Germany, growth of government, labour market regulation, size of government, taxation and labour supply
Source: Linda Regber.
Do the European welfare states free ride off American entrepreneurship and innovation?
12 Nov 2015 1 Comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, politics - USA, public economics, survivor principle, taxation, technological progress Tags: creative destruction, Daron Acemoglu, Denmark, entrepreneurial alertness, Eurosclerosis, international technology diffusion, taxation and entrepreneurship, taxation and innovation, taxation and investment, taxation and labour supply, technology followers, welfare state
Source: Daron Acemoglu A Scandinavian U.S. Would Be a Problem for the Global Economy – NYTimes.com.
Will high marginal tax rates and redistribution fix inequality?
18 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, entrepreneurship, human capital, labour economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: Gini coefficient, rational irrationality, taxation and entrepreneurship, taxation and human capital, taxation and labour supply, taxation investment
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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