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kristopher

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1. And you thought an economic study fm a right wing think tank ...

Reply to LuckyTheDog (Original post)

Mon Mar 14, 2016, 03:18 PM

Mar 2016

Last edited Mon Mar 14, 2016, 04:32 PM - Edit history (1)

...is worth posting here because....?

They are concerned mostly with how increasing marginal taxes incentivize people to work less, and they therefore make less money.

Really?

People are poor because they don't work hard enough due to an aversion to paying a higher marginal tax???

REALLY?????

ETA because I don't want to bump

The right wing think tank that produced the non-peer reviewed white paper:
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138

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We�ve been measuring inequality wrong � here�s the real story (nuance that the far right will spin) [View all] LuckyTheDog Mar 2016 OP

And you thought an economic study fm a right wing think tank ... kristopher Mar 2016 #1

University of California at Berkeley and Boston University LuckyTheDog Mar 2016 #3

NBER isn't a right-wing think tank LuckyTheDog Mar 2016 #4

I think that is a load of rot hfojvt Mar 2016 #2

And the age group they chose 40-49 angstlessk Mar 2016 #5