Posted in Economics, Fiscal Policy, Income tax, Property Tax, Sales Tax, Taxation, tagged Economics, Fiscal Policy, Income tax, Property Tax, Sales Tax, Taxation on July 17, 2022| 8 Comments » I’ve written a few columns that explain tax principles, but this video from the Tax Founda...
Indeed, I founded the Center for Freedom and Prosperity in 2000 precisely because the OECD started its “harmful tax competition” project, which threatenedlow-tax jurisdictionswith financial protectionism if they didn’t agree to help Europe’s welfare states enforce their anti-growth tax laws. For...
Consider the Clean Water Act, which was enacted to regulate “navigable waterways,” but now has metastasized to the extent that the government now tries to regulate ponds on private property and control the building of houses on dry land. Consider money laundering laws, which began ostensibly to...
Serious questions are coming to light about Harris County Tax Collector Ann Harris Bennett’s job performance following a Houston Chronicle report showing the two-time elected official may not have shown up to work for years. Bennett’s office collects property taxes, processes vehicle registrations,...
County actors sued their union for an exception to union wages for theaters with 99 seats or fewer seats. Why do these stage actors work for so little? They want to work. By working, they improve their skills, stay sharp and or perhaps have a chance to get spotted by an agent. Some ...
In this paper, we estimate the effect by using a difference-in-differences design, with detailed property-level data, that exploits changes of the conforming loan limits (CLLs) along county borders. We find a sizable effect of CLLs on government guarantees but no robust effect on homeownership....
County Board of Supervisors whether any of them were willing to take voluntary pay cuts during this crisis. He was told by the chair that his question was “irresponsible,” which is to say embarrassing and inconvenient. (By contrast, New Zealand’s senior officials, including the prime ...