Progressives and social democrats should be fighting them tooth and nail, not blithely embracing them.
by Steve Roth
Originally Posted at Wealth Economics
The spreadsheet behind the tables and graphs here is available on request. Drop me a line in the comments or elsewhere.
Following the community of Socks (🧦s) or “social democrats” out there on the interwebs (this is definitely my economic tribe), in articles, and in books, there’s a particular stance on a particular issue that I find perplexing, even anti-progressive. They’re generally quite keen on using “value-added” consumption/sales taxes (VATs) to fund a robust social-benefits or “welfare” system. (Viz: this out recently from Matt Bruenig and the People’s Policy Project. Thanks to
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