Let's follow Stephen Roach's advice. This imbecile is out of control and the [sh*tty] NYT actually publishes his ramblings. The problem with higher taxes is that the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WILL JUST WASTE THE MONEY anyway! It's not like it's going towards productive purposes. I grew up in a democratic household, have become a small-L libertarian, and am beginning to really DESPISE these communist liberals. Article follows: ---------------------------------------------------------- Things to Tax By PAUL KRUGMAN Published: November 27, 2011 The supercommittee was a superdud â and we should be glad. Nonetheless, at some point weâll have to rein in budget deficits. And when we do, hereâs a thought: How about making increased revenue an important part of the deal? And I donât just mean a return to Clinton-era tax rates. Why should 1990s taxes be considered the outer limit of revenue collection? Think about it: The long-run budget outlook has darkened, which means that some hard choices must be made. Why should those choices only involve spending cuts? Why not also push some taxes above their levels in the 1990s? Let me suggest two areas in which it would make a lot of sense to raise taxes in earnest, not just return them to pre-Bush levels: taxes on very high incomes and taxes on financial transactions. About those high incomes: In my last column I suggested that the very rich, who have had huge income gains over the last 30 years, should pay more in taxes. I got many responses from readers, with a common theme being that this was silly, that even confiscatory taxes on the wealthy couldnât possibly raise enough money to matter. Folks, youâre living in the past. Once upon a time America was a middle-class nation, in which the super-eliteâs income was no big deal. But that was another country. The I.R.S. reports that in 2007, that is, before the economic crisis, the top 0.1 percent of taxpayers â roughly speaking, people with annual incomes over $2 million â had a combined income of more than a trillion dollars. Thatâs a lot of money, and it wouldnât be hard to devise taxes that would raise a significant amount of revenue from those super-high-income individuals. For example, a recent report by the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center points out that before 1980 very-high-income individuals fell into tax brackets well above the 35 percent top rate that applies today. According to the centerâs analysis, restoring those high-income brackets would have raised $78 billion in 2007, or more than half a percent of G.D.P. Iâve extrapolated that number using Congressional Budget Office projections, and what I get for the next decade is that high-income taxation could shave more than $1 trillion off the deficit. Itâs instructive to compare that estimate with the savings from the kinds of proposals that are actually circulating in Washington these days. Consider, for example, proposals to raise the age of Medicare eligibility to 67, dealing a major blow to millions of Americans. How much money would that save? Well, none from the point of view of the nation as a whole, since we would be pushing seniors out of Medicare and into private insurance, which has substantially higher costs. True, it would reduce federal spending â but not by much. The budget office estimates that outlays would fall by only $125 billion over the next decade, as the age increase phased in. And even when fully phased in, this partial dismantling of Medicare would reduce the deficit only about a third as much as could be achieved with higher taxes on the very rich. So raising taxes on the very rich could make a serious contribution to deficit reduction. Donât believe anyone who claims otherwise. And then thereâs the idea of taxing financial transactions, which have exploded in recent decades. The economic value of all this trading is dubious at best. In fact, thereâs considerable evidence suggesting that too much trading is going on. Still, nobody is proposing a punitive tax. On the table, instead, are proposals like the one recently made by Senator Tom Harkin and Representative Peter DeFazio for a tiny fee on financial transactions. And hereâs the thing: Because there are so many transactions, such a fee could yield several hundred billion dollars in revenue over the next decade. Again, this compares favorably with the savings from many of the harsh spending cuts being proposed in the name of fiscal responsibility. But wouldnât such a tax hurt economic growth? As I said, the evidence suggests not â if anything, it suggests that to the extent that taxing financial transactions reduces the volume of wheeling and dealing, that would be a good thing. And itâs instructive, too, to note that some countries already have financial transactions taxes â and that among those who do are Hong Kong and Singapore. If some conservative starts claiming that such taxes are an unwarranted government intrusion, you might want to ask him why such taxes are imposed by the two countries that score highest on the Heritage Foundationâs Index of Economic Freedom. Now, the tax ideas Iâve just mentioned wouldnât be enough, by themselves, to fix our deficit. But the same is true of proposals for spending cuts. The point Iâm making here isnât that taxes are all we need; it is that they could and should be a significant part of the solution.
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Just picture Krugman as Pesci's brother in this scene from the movie "Casino" it will probably make you feel better. <object style="height: 390px; width: 640px"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/-RHcrhI7J54?version=3&feature=player_detailpage"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/-RHcrhI7J54?version=3&feature=player_detailpage" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="640" height="360"></object> This was the only version i could find, kind of weird it is done to chariots of fire in slow motion.
Another something-for-nothing spoiled asshole from the community of Chicago traders. How cliche. Really, if you care this much about your money that you can't stand the thought of having to pay even a dime more in tax, I got news for you - not only are you a selfish asshole, you're a loser. Because if you care that much about your money, you will lose it. It's only a matter of time.
You righties are very violent people, even when all that's happening is you're reading ideas you disagree with.
Won it? I thought it was awarded to him because he's black. Affirmative action and that sort of thing.
Did you even read the article before you wrote this non sense? He isnt talking about just a little more in tax, he is talking about punitive taxes and taking as much as he can from the people who make over 2 million, and going to higher tax rates then the clinton years. He is also talking about a transaction tax, which if you actually traded for a living you would know that this tax would put most traders out of business. Simple math, today i traded about 300k shares, 300k*30$ per share= 9 million*.0025(quarter percent transaction tax)= 22,500 i would owe in taxes. That would put me negative 15k for today on a pretty solid day. For one day of trading. You should really try to think before you post tinfoil instead of constantly making an ass of yourself.