Tag Archives: Tax Policy

Trump & Bounderby: Cut Taxes or Die

By Robin Bates | Published: September 28, 2016

In Monday night’s debate, Donald Trump warned that companies would take their business elsewhere if taxes and regulations on them weren’t lowered. As Dickens noted in “Hard Times,” businesses have been threatening this, like, forever.

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Walmart Practices a Tom Sawyer Economy

By Robin Bates | Published: August 25, 2016

Walmart relies on American taxpayers to subsidize its work force. This is being called “a Tom Sawyer economy,” an allusion to the fence whitewashing episode.

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How the Rich Cry Poverty, Austen Style

By Robin Bates | Published: September 21, 2010

John Kenneth Galbraith, noted economist and author of The Affluent Society, used to read Jane Austen before he sat down to write. He wanted to achieve the author’s light ironic touch in his own work. Yesterday another liberal economist had me thinking of Austen. Paul Krugman, the Nobel laureate who writes for the New York […]

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