Certain Things: Taxes...Maybe
09/14/20 • 13 min
Taxes are subject of debate every election cycle. Everyone wants lower taxes, but also more services from the government. Every couple of years, pundits argue on the news the merits of trickle-down-economics or universal healthcare, but what do all those mean? Are they actually efficient in bettering our world?
Link to this week's article:
https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/67246/1000091-Can-Flat-Taxes-be-Progressive-.pdf
Taxes are subject of debate every election cycle. Everyone wants lower taxes, but also more services from the government. Every couple of years, pundits argue on the news the merits of trickle-down-economics or universal healthcare, but what do all those mean? Are they actually efficient in bettering our world?
Link to this week's article:
https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/67246/1000091-Can-Flat-Taxes-be-Progressive-.pdf
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Extra reading if you are interested in:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11948-016-9770-5 (Will Life Be Worth Living in a World Without Work? Technological Unemployment and the Meaning of Life)
https://ourworldindata.org/ (Our world in data)
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