Posts Tagged ‘Savings Rates’

Consumption Tax and Elimination of Social Security

Posted by Taylor on July 14th, 2009 under Economics Tags: , ,  •  3 Comments

Jason’s post on progessive taxation really got me thinking.  I haven’t worked through this too much in my head, but I am starting to kind of like the idea of combining a consumption tax (all savings and capital gains are tax free) with an elimination of the social security tax.  Here’s some rough reasoning:
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