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15 Nov 2016, 2:09 pm by Daniel Shaviro
  But we can replace the lost progressivity from changing the tax base from income tax to consumption by making the new tax rates nominally higher and more progressive.Again, all this is what I take to be the Viard view (although I agree with most of it); now on to the Robert Frank view.Robert Frank: He questions the need for an ability-to-pay tax until we’ve exhausted all taxes on negative externalities. [read post]
15 Nov 2016, 12:23 pm by Paul Caron
Alan Viard (American Enterprise Institute) presented Progressive Consumption Taxation: The X Tax Revisited (2012) at NYU yesterday as part of its High-End Inequality Colloquium Series (more here) hosted by Robert Frank (Cornell) and Dan Shaviro (NYU): The United States is alone among industrialized countries in having no broad-based consumption tax... [read post]
12 Nov 2016, 7:42 am by Alan White
The Republican agenda to roll back Dodd-Frank, if this means unshackling the megabanks from speculating with public and taxpayer funds, will be the first betrayal by the incoming administration of its voter base. [read post]
9 Nov 2016, 6:33 am by Ronald Mann
Roberts went on to comment that the “federal courts … are courts of limited jurisdiction. [read post]
7 Nov 2016, 1:05 pm by Paul Caron
Ilyana Kuziemko (Princeton) presents Support for Redistribution in an Age of Rising Inequality: New Stylized Facts and Some Tentative Explanations (with Vivekinan Ashok (Yale) & Ebonya Washington (Yale)) today at the NYU High-End Inequality Colloquium Series (more here) hosted by Robert Frank (Cornell) and Dan Shaviro (NYU): Despite the large... [read post]
4 Nov 2016, 9:30 pm by Dan Ernst
  In his oral history, Jerome Frank recalled working with the legendary Joseph Cotton, chief of its Meat Division.) [read post]
4 Nov 2016, 2:24 pm by Andrew Hamm
In the words of renowned Progressive Era scholar Frank Goodnow, whom Ely quoted, the court was “emphatic as to the right of the state to regulate the use of land. [read post]
1 Nov 2016, 9:13 am by Daniel Shaviro
Robert Frank would be inclined to shelve “status threat” explanations that seem to sound in bullying and resentment, in favor of positional externalities from consumption levels. [read post]
1 Nov 2016, 4:00 am by Jennifer Davis
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31 Oct 2016, 9:30 pm by Sophia Yan
Representative Barney Frank discussed how Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton would “improve” the Dodd-Frank Act if she were elected, while Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, would “dismantle” it. [read post]
31 Oct 2016, 11:10 am by Paul Caron
Kate Pickett (University of York) presents Income Inequality and Health: A Casual Review and The Enemy Between Us: The Psychological and Social Costs of Inequality (both with Richard Wilkinson (University of Nottingham)) at the NYU High-End Inequality Colloquium Series (more here) hosted by Robert Frank (Cornell) and Dan Shaviro (NYU):... [read post]
30 Oct 2016, 3:20 pm by Amanda Seligman
Police officers beat Frank Jude not in response to a 911 call, but for an alleged theft at a party he had attended at the home of a police officer. [read post]
29 Oct 2016, 8:44 am by Daniel Shaviro
We now have an NYU webpage up for the Colloquium on High-End Inequality that Robert Frank and I will be co-running at the law school for the next 6 weeks (Mondays through December 5). [read post]
28 Oct 2016, 6:41 am by Jim Sedor
Robert McDonnell, a ruling that legal experts feared would make prosecuting public corruption cases more difficult. [read post]
26 Oct 2016, 12:09 pm by Zachary Burdette, Quinta Jurecic
Robert Williams  assessed the legal implications of the Navy’s latest freedom of navigation operation in the South China Sea. [read post]
25 Oct 2016, 12:53 pm by CJLF Staff
  ArkLaTex reports that Robert McCoy was found guilty of three counts of first-degree murder in 2011 for the 2008 deaths of his estranged wife's son, mother and stepfather, and sentenced to death in 2012. [read post]