Bursting the Limits to Growth

I believe it is important and helpful to understanding issues to look at them from perspectives that may not be your own.  In that tradition here is a short op-ed from the Washington Times claiming that tax cuts will stimulate the economy by leading to job growth.  It discusses how tax models do not take into account human factor and motivation which may be partially true.  However the piece is short on specifics and mostly seems based on tired rhetoric.  Either way, worth a brief read.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/oct/24/tax-cus-key-to-reviving-economy/

Warren Buffett to Trump: 'I have paid federal income tax every year since 1944'

This article does not go in depth about what it means for Trump to defer his losses, something we have also not explicitly covered in class yet either, however it is about federal taxes as a whole and just too good to pass up posting. Warren Buffett does the simple thing of releasing his taxes to debunk Trump's claims about him made during the last debate. In describing Buffett's taxes though the article does go into some of the intricacies of charitable giving something I believe we will be covering in the future.

http://money.cnn.com/2016/10/10/pf/taxes/warren-buffett-trump-taxes/

A Value Added Tax (VAT) is Not a Trade Barrier

Interesting new opinion piece in the Christian Science Monitor arguing that a VAT tax does not give Mexican businesses an advantage over their American counterparts.

http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/Tax-VOX/2016/1003/A-value-added-tax-VAT-is-not-a-trade-barrier