Yes, the major part of cost cutting is probably behind us, but we can continue to maintain at least modest, certainly high single-digit to maybe low double-digit growth with the current situation that we have with the very marginal economic growth.
The argument that high marginal tax rates will discourage economic growth strikes me as pretty compelling.
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But how might high marginal tax rates affect overall economic growth?
But we generated so much economic growth by cutting marginal tax rates that those deficits were ultimately wiped out.
But CBO as well as the Joint Tax Committee woefully underestimate the negative economic effects of higher marginal tax rates, which the market recognizes as implied by higher government spending.
By cutting marginal rates of tax, the resulting economic dynamism would generate the additional revenues needed to pay for it all.
The wonderful, work-based, affluence-inducing, effects of low marginal tax rates is not the only fundamental economic principle that Ibn Khaldun got right.
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Four billion people worldwide lie squarely at the bottom of the economic pyramid, eking out a marginal existence of about three dollars per day.
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In the same way, an increase in marginal tax rates leads to less domestic trade or economic activity.
Although this plan does less than Mr McCain's to shift taxation from income towards consumption, the reduction of marginal tax rates could have a bigger effect on economic growth.
Is it really that difficult to imagine the economic carnage that would follow from raising their marginal rates?
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But deterring congestion will in many cases require charging more than the marginal social cost of motoring, and this will impose economic loss on society instead of stemming it.
At the same time, the higher marginal tax rates he demands will reduce the opportunities for economic activity, leading to slower growth and fewer job opportunities for the 98%.
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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Raising marginal tax rates, as Democrats want to do, will slow economic growth and kill jobs.
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Lower marginal tax rates are the key to providing the necessary incentives for economic growth and prosperity.
Supply-siders believe that permanent cuts in marginal tax rates (particularly on savings and investment) will increase economic growth.
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Telegraph lines presented a similar economic challenge high start-up capital and low marginal operating costs.
The right price, he said, is low enough to facilitate global economic growth but high enough to incentivize development of not just marginal oil and gas fields but even renewable energy sources.
Investors have recently rushed headlong into treasuries for fear that the economic recovery could be vulnerable to signs that activity is facing a marginal slowdown.
The results of the analysis suggest that changes over the past 65 years in the top marginal tax rate and the top capital gains tax rate do not appear correlated with economic growth.
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It combines the independence from University sponsorship of the Udacitys of the world with the academic street cred of, say, CourseRA. Marginal Revolution University (or MRU for short) has been developed by two GMU economic professors, Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok.
This would increase marginal tax rates on high earners by 12.4 percentage points, which would devastate economic growth.
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To the extent Mr. Romney is offering a flatter tax code, with lower marginal rates, he is offering millions of women greater choice and a shot at more economic freedom.
She enjoys international recognition but is rather marginal at home, since she does not have any particular political experience and is not knowledgeable about economic and security issues.
Make sure the rich pay their share, but in a way that makes economic sense: you can boost the tax take from the wealthy by eliminating loopholes while simultaneously lowering marginal rates.
It is a testament to the shallow nature of the national economic conversation that higher tax rates can be justified by reference to a fantasy a 91% marginal rate that hardly any top earners paid.
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