My Daily Domestic Clips 10/12/2010 (a.m.)

• Higher Taxes Mean Less Work – FOXBusiness.com – – Annotated tags: currentevents Obama economy areyousorryyet?
  • Mankiw says more taxes would
    just mean he’d work less.
    In an example he gave he
    showed why:
    If he was offered $1,000 to
    write an article – without taxes at all – he would get a $1,000. And if he
    invested it at 8% interest he would end up with $10,000 in 30 years.
    But then again, that world
    doesn’t exist.
    In reality, if the tax cuts
    expire, he would pay more than 39% in taxes, nearly 4% in Medicare tax thanks to
    Obamacare and more than 5% in state income taxes which equals $523.
    As far as investing it, the
    corporation whose stock he chose would have to pay 35% tax, so he would only
    make a little more than 5%. So over 10 years that money would only grow to about
    $1,700.
    But wait there’s more!
  • Once he leaves his children that money in his will, they’ll get hit by a 55%
    estate tax. So instead of $10,000, his kids would get less than $1,000. So why
    bother in the first place!
  • And he’s not alone – a study by the an economist at
    Arizona State University  found a 10% increase in taxes led to a 10 to 15%
    decrease in work hours.–especially if those workers felt their money was going to transfer programs like Social
    Security or welfare.
    As Mankiw points out, some
    of these people being less incentivized to work may include surgeons or lawyers
    or people vital to your day to day life.
    So just because you don’t
    make $250,000 you too will find your life altered– and not in a good way– if
    it’s just the “so-called” rich bear the burden!
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