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By Mike Moffatt, About.com Guide to Economics since 2002

How Good Intentions Lead to Crushing Marginal Tax Rates on the Working Poor

Thursday July 10, 2008
The title explains it all: How Good Intentions Lead to Crushing Marginal Tax Rates on the Working Poor.

I figure between my support for Pigovian taxation (and pollution reduction in general) and my support for lowering high marginal income tax rates, I will offend all sides of the political spectrum this week.

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