I commented on this on my relgious ID today in response to EJ Dionnes post in WaPo. E.J.s piece may make you a Georgist, although he might not think so. Depends on a citizens dividend. I suspect welfare reform, which came from Clinton and Gingrich, caused much of this - as well as the simplistic desire by the Republicans to let the states fund their operations with less and less federal support - which is bass ackwards considering that, while state income taxes are more supported (or were) they are less and less progressive (and replaceable by a VAT). The GOP and Paul Ryan cannot have it both ways - if you move things to the states from some misguided view of subsidiarity, then you must make the states as progressive as the national government - which the GOP will not do.
Posted on: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 07:44:34 +0000
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