Posts Tagged ‘ Wealth ’

Wesley Snipes has put tax protesters in the cross hairs of the IRS

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February 21, 2008

Actor Wesley Snipes was found not guilty of federal tax fraud and conspiracy charges earlier this month. Basically he blamed it on the tax advice he received. Whether one believes that he didn’t know that when one earns $38 million you are likely to owe some tax, much less request a 12 million dollar...
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Now is when investors can separate

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February 12, 2008

The whole world of economics is enormously more complex than the world of physics. And therefore the teaching of business schools, including Yale’s, is unrealistic. Even though economics is a very old subject, it has not truly come to grips with the main difficulty, which is the inordinate practical importance of a few extreme...
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Private Infrastructure

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January 7, 2008

Over at the Wall Street Journal’s Wealth Report, Robert Frank notes: Government outlays on physical infrastructure have declined to 2.7 percent of the gross domestic product, he says, from 3.6 percent in the 1960s. Philanthropic giving, in contrast, has jumped to nearly 2.5 percent of GDP. This leads him to wonder: With privatization all...
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How our system of taxation works

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January 7, 2007

Via Professor Greg Mankiw: Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this: The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing. The fifth would pay $1....
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