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Freedom from paying taxes...
Every developed country aspires to provide a better life for its people.
The United States, among the richest of all, fails in important ways.
It has the highest poverty and the highest infant mortality among developed nations.
We provide among the least generous unemployment benefits in the industrial world.
The reason is not difficult to figure out: rich though we are, we can’t afford the policies needed to improve our record.
Excluding Chile and Mexico, the United States raises less tax revenue, as a share of the economy, than every other industrial country.
By 2020, 70 million Americans are expected to be on Social Security, up from 45 million in 2000.
The ranks on Medicare will swell to 64 million, up from 40 million in 2000.
Virtually every economist knows that just maintaining Medicare and Medicaid benefits will require raising taxes...
Mitt Romney and his vice-presidential pick, Paul Ryan, are moving decidedly in the opposite direction.
Not only do they want to extend indefinitely the tax cuts passed by President George W. Bush, but they are also calling for a piñata of additional ones, and would cut social spending...
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/15/b...g-behind-because-of-an-aversion-to-taxes.html
Every developed country aspires to provide a better life for its people.
The United States, among the richest of all, fails in important ways.
It has the highest poverty and the highest infant mortality among developed nations.
We provide among the least generous unemployment benefits in the industrial world.
The reason is not difficult to figure out: rich though we are, we can’t afford the policies needed to improve our record.
Excluding Chile and Mexico, the United States raises less tax revenue, as a share of the economy, than every other industrial country.
By 2020, 70 million Americans are expected to be on Social Security, up from 45 million in 2000.
The ranks on Medicare will swell to 64 million, up from 40 million in 2000.
Virtually every economist knows that just maintaining Medicare and Medicaid benefits will require raising taxes...
Mitt Romney and his vice-presidential pick, Paul Ryan, are moving decidedly in the opposite direction.
Not only do they want to extend indefinitely the tax cuts passed by President George W. Bush, but they are also calling for a piñata of additional ones, and would cut social spending...
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/15/b...g-behind-because-of-an-aversion-to-taxes.html