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Taxes to Raise, Taxes to Lower

  • Politics
April 14, 2010July 5, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

…in the long run I’d like to see it. Some luxury sales taxes and consumption taxes. If we want to go after what Calitics likes to call the Yacht Party,…

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I Like Some Taxes Less Than Others, Notes on the California Situation

  • California
February 3, 2011July 5, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

…mended, not ended. The most famous part of Proposition 13, the restrictions on raising taxes on a home that is not being sold or rebuilt, was a good thing. Taxes…

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Raise Everyone’s Taxes, Including Mine

  • Economics
December 19, 2012July 17, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

A number of millionaires are fine with their taxes being raised. I myself could live with slightly higher taxes, though I don’t like the idea of going higher than the…

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Which Taxes to Raise – A Revision

  • Economics
February 27, 2015July 17, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

…tax rates, a ‘split roll’ [because commercial property taxes, unlike residential ones, are de facto local income taxes on rents or income, because that is what determines the value of…

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Progressive Consumption Taxes

  • Politics
April 26, 2011July 3, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

I agree with Frank, not with Henderson. I have a lot less problem with progressive consumption taxes on the rich than with progressive income taxes. That way if the rich…

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Taxes and the Schadenfreude of the Rich

  • Politics
April 7, 2011July 3, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

…being made an argument for “lower taxes on the rich,” it could be just as easily made an argument for higher taxes on everybody else. We rich folks are not…

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Raise Revenues by Reducing Taxes?

  • Economics
July 16, 2011July 17, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

…Laffer Curve, and that there are more revenues to be got by reducing taxes. This is debatable. Related: “Free Republicans From the Middle-Class Tax Trap” by Ramesh Ponnuru at Bloomberg.com…

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OASDI Taxes Are Also Unconstitutional

  • Economics,
  • Politics
February 9, 2011July 5, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

If this court is right, OASDI taxes are also unconstitutional. If it is upheld, I will so interpret. And the payroll tax is far more ‘regressive’ than the income tax….

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Herdt: On taxes, redevelopment and teamwork

  • Politics
February 20, 2011July 3, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

…traditional partisan lines. I still say we have the social justice opportunity of the century! Related “Herdt: On Taxes, Redevelopment and Teamwork” by Timm Herdt at the Ventura County Star…

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Man of the Left George Skelton Admits California Income Tax is too Top-Heavy on the Rich! Plus, Apparently Man of the Left Thomas Piketty Endorses Proposition 13!

  • Politics
July 21, 2014July 3, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

…whatsoever, but taxes that must be paid in cash on a non-liquid, non-income-producing asset, like property taxes and death taxes, are disruptive, forcing people to sell out and liquidate their…

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