An explicit or direct tax is resented by the public and enough to get someone voted out of office.

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At a Pioneer Institute event two years ago, Jonathan Gruber went as far as to say that the explicit purpose of the tax was meant to wean the country away from employer based insurance.

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In turn, the design of many tax expenditures could not possibly pass Congress if presented as explicit spending legislation.

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Plus, several income tax forms that you might not read until near return filing make explicit reference to Forms 1099.

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Williamson has been kind enough to make it explicit: He is for (or at least reconciled, amongst crocodile tears, to) tax increases!

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Household debt has doubled in the past five years, partly as a result of an explicit policy of encouraging the use of credit cards to cut down on cash-based transactions and fight tax evasion.

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If banks benefit from permanent state protection against collapse, then perhaps we need to make explicit that there is a contract between banks and state that they should never ever take steps to reduce their tax burden.

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