The burden of taxation influences so many of our actions, especially in terms of our labor.
Most suggest some variety of a consumption tax, where the burden of taxation falls on consumption rather than on income.
Only they can decide on the proper balance between social protections, welfare spending, infrastructure investment, regulations and the appropriate burden of taxation.
Look carefully at Mr Bush's tax cuts to date: they suggest a strong desire to reduce the burden of taxation on saving.
In tandem, governments should switch the burden of taxation from consumption to capital by reducing value-added taxes and increasing taxes on capital and wealth.
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The burden of taxation, then, falls disproportionately on China's very poorest.
Given the importance of job creation, it would make sense to shift some of the burden of taxation permanently away from employment towards consumption or carbon emissions.
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Under a consumption tax, the burden of taxation would probably fall more heavily on poorer Americans, since most capital, whose returns would not be taxed, is held by the rich.
"The burden of taxation will be so extraordinarily high to maintain the cost of the retired generation that they simply won't be able to have a high quality of life, " Gregg says.
Their proposals to promote more private-sector jobs for the poor by cutting employers' national insurance contributions and shifting the burden of taxation on to capital-intensive activities from labour-intensive ones merit further consideration.
The irony is that it is precisely these stated concerns of the supposedly ignorant Tea Partiers for the burden of taxation and spending that exhibits the virtues the left wants us to have.
Only government can subject all industries simultaneously to the effects of its macro policies, such as rising or falling interest rates, the general burden of taxation, the moral hazard inherent in the promise of bailouts, and the uncertainty and perverse incentives of open-ended regulatory programs.
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That might leave others--in particular, high-growth and high-tech companies, who can ill afford debt--to shoulder the burden of corporate taxation.
That is, they suffer from the two conditions that move the burden of that taxation off shareholders and onto the workers.
And with unemployment stubbornly stuck near 10%, there is no better time than now to relieve domestic workers from the burden of capital income taxation.
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Since the rich will always have means to escape heavy taxation, the burden of bloated government bureaucracy will eventually fall the heaviest on those of lesser means.
Whatever financial benefit taxation possesses is nullified by the fact that borrowing instead of taxation places no greater financial burden on the community.
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The Institute of Directors says firms would shoulder the burden as graduates expect higher salaries to compensate for what would lose through taxation.
However, borrowing and printing have one huge advantage over taxation: they make it much easier to disguise the true cost of government while surreptitiously pushing the burden onto future generations.
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