Miguel) IRAs, 401ks, 529a, HSAs, etc, etc, should all be eliminated in favor of a simpler and
flatter tax policy.
Not exact matches
The $ 330 - billion spending plan says while several economic indicators such as employment numbers and
tax revenues are up, and this year's deficit will likely be lower than expected — there are risks ahead: oil prices are expected to remain low; Canadian exports may remain
flat; and «possible U.S.
policy actions affecting trade could restrain exports to the U.S. even further,» the budget says.
We could be on the cusp of conservative reforms that would rival all of the domestic
policy achievements of the 1980s and 1990s if some conservatives would stop trying to relive the Kemp - Roth
tax cuts or else engaging in hopeless struggles to get the public to support
flat taxes or national sales
taxes that would either raise
taxes on the middle - class or collapse revenues or both.
This means putting aside political chimeras like
flat taxes and focusing instead on conservative
policies that will directly benefit working families around the median income.
Flat taxes or
tax policies that sharply cut
tax rates on high - earners are unrealistic as matters of politics or budget math or both.
Godfrey Bloom, the party's economics spokesman, wants to create a
flat rate of income
tax at 25 per cent with a personal allowance of # 13,000, a
policy which he accepts will bring particular benefits to middle earners.
Among the party's other
policies: a # 50bn a year cut in spending, a 31 per cent
flat rate of income
tax, the abolition of national insurance, a five - year freeze on new immigrants settling in Britain, a ban on wearing the burka in public - and in some private — buildings, and boot camps for young offenders.
I was wondering when someone would point out to Cameron that the very sensible idea of abolishing Brown's pointless 10p band was first suggested by the Conservative
Tax Commision, and represents the «flatter, simpler» tax policy that Osborne is supposed to believe
Tax Commision, and represents the «
flatter, simpler»
tax policy that Osborne is supposed to believe
tax policy that Osborne is supposed to believe in.
While UKIP has always held
policies in this libertarian vein, such as
flat tax, it has never had someone with the communication abilities of Carswell to get them across to the public.
Call this the «no one likes a sellout» theory — it's the idea that a simpler, stronger
policy (say, a
flat carbon
tax), combined with fervent grassroots pressure, might have stood a better chance.
«It's clear that much of the sales pitch for a carbon
tax that has been aimed at Republicans has fallen
flat,» says Joseph Majkut, a geoscientist and the director of climate
policy at the Niskanen Center, a libertarian think tank that supports a carbon
tax.
From a transportation
policy point of view, this sort of
tax shifting is also more equitable in that it
taxes every driver according to the amount of miles they drive by sharing the price signal (by spreading the
tax / fees burden) across all drivers instead of assessing
flat road maintenance fees or concentrating them amongst a specific group of drivers, some of whom just happen to use toll roads more frequently than average but not necessarily drive more.
In this year of potential
tax reform and changes to economic
policy, 34 % of survey respondents names the
flat tax as their top preference among five different hypothetical regimes.