[Beveridge] was a driven man, right to the end; his last words, enunciated clearly from his death bed at the age of eighty-four, showed that the aging social reformer was still haunted by the memory o...
A lot of what we know about other nations' approach to health care is simply myth.
The Tax Complexity Lobby, as Forbes magazine called it, includes tax-preparation firms like H&R Block and Jackson Hewitt, as well as companies that make tax-preparation software
What had been the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 became the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, which it still is today.
The shortcomings of our system can be grouped into three basic problems: coverage, quality, and cost.
Most of them ran counter to the ethos of BBLR. Virtually all of them made the tax code more complicated—including that bizarre anti-complexity clause, Section 7803(c)(2)(B)(ii)(IX). Three decades afte...
Only the richest smidgen of the population had to file a return, and even for them the top tax rate was just 7%.
But out of twenty-three wealthy countries, the American health care system ranks dead last when it comes to keeping newborns alive.
Believe me, Dr. Tamalet summed up, if you wanted that operation in France, you could get itWhich is, of course, the boon and the bane of France's health care system. It offers a maximum of free choice...
A consumption tax like the VAT is paid by everybody, including those who pay no income tax and those who are in the country illegally.
Seventy-three thousand pages of IRS regulations, he laughed at the very suggestion.
Von Köckritz’s entire higher education was free. She considers that perfectly normal—and in Europe, it is.
The big gorilla of homeowner tax breaks is the deduction for mortgage interest, which reduces income tax revenues by about $100 billion each year. That is, this one tax deduction costs more than the b...
In the 1960s, the corporate tax brought in about 33% of U.S. tax revenues. Today, the same tax provides less than 9% of revenues; that means individual taxpayers have to take up the slack and pay more...
The number one most serious problem facing American taxpayers. That problem is the complexity of the tax code.
Anybody buying a qualified plug-in electric car—the list of approved vehicles includes sleek, sporty cars like the $105,000 Tesla Model S P85D and the $138,000 BMW i8—can subtract up to $7,500 from th...
We pour more money into national defense than anybody else; our defense budgets, in fact, are bigger than those in the next eleven countries combined
If there’s no deduction for contributions, charities don’t have to produce a certified receipt for each donation, and the contributor doesn’t have to track down the nine-digit Tax ID Number of each ch...
By routing its manufacturing through a tiny factory in Puerto Rico, Microsoft saved over $4.5 billion in taxes on goods sold in the United States over a three-year period.
BBLR means that if the tax base—that is, the total amount of income, or sales, or property that can be taxed—is kept as large as possible, then the tax rate—that is, the percentage that people have to...