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The 9-9-9 Plan is a member of what I call the family of taxonomically equivalent tax systems, which define the tax base in an economically proper manner, albeit in different forms, and minimize the deadweight-loss tax burden on the economy.
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In addition, Austan Goolsbee, the former chairman of Mr. Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, did pioneering work in the early 2000s documenting that the organizational form of firms is highly responsive to tax changes, arguing at the time that this significantly increases the likely deadweight loss associated with the corporate tax.
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If instead these individuals paid the full premiums for their retiree health coverage directly, it would eliminate the deadweight losses caused by financing their Medicare with tax revenues. (Remember such deadweight losses harm all of us, not just those at the top of the income distribution).
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He doubts whether enough new managers would be attracted to make up for the deadweight cost of giving a tax break to existing ones.
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For example, here is the OECD empirical work on the deadweight costs of various forms of tax.
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The Conservatives have accepted that offering general tax relief on health insurance would be too expensive, given the deadweight cost of extending it to the more than 6m individuals who are already covered.
ECONOMIST: Health
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Indeed, some would argue that the spur of such a tax leads to more efficient allocation of the resources and thus to a negative deadweight cost.
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But smoother increases in marginal tax rates, as under current law, create less economic friction, and fewer deadweight losses, then those with a number of peaks and valleys.
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