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Tag Archives: taxes
Internet Sales Tax FAQ
We’ve got a week of Internet politics-related topics queued up for you this week. Today we’ll take a look at the prospect of an internet sales tax. Later in the week we’ll discuss why The Great Gatsby still isn’t in the public … Continue reading
Taxes, Moonshine, and State Building
I have to admit an ulterior motive behind Friday’s post. We discussed the Alchian-Allen theorem, which states that adding a fixed cost (usually but not necessarily for transportation) to the price of a good leads consumers to purchase more of the high … Continue reading
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Tagged behavior, bootleggers and baptists, crime, culture, data, drugs, economics, education, entertainment, history, law enforcement, political science, politics, prohibition, taxes, technology, transportation, violence
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More Unintended Consequences of Cigarette Taxes
We have been talking about drug dealing this week, and today we turn our attention to the smuggling of a legal drug product: cigarettes. Differential state tax rates on cigarettes have unintended consequences, which we have discussed before. “Tobacco Road” … Continue reading
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Tagged behavior, black markets, bootleggers and baptists, crime, drugs, economics, political science, politics, public policy, rationality, smuggling, taxes, transportation
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Statistics and Crime: “We are all criminals.”
Longtime readers will remember these posts on traffic laws. I’ve got another post coming down the pipe on traffic circles soon, and am also planning a post or two on the (mis)use of statistics and probability by political figures. However, … Continue reading
But corporations don’t supply public goods!
One of the objections that could be raised to yesterday’s post is that corporations tend not to provide what are known as “public goods”–things that can be enjoyed by many people at the same time or over time without being … Continue reading
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Tagged charity, disaster relief, economics, Middle East, occupy movement, politics, redistribution, taxes, waqf
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