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When One State’s Tax-Exempt Necessity Is Another’s High-Tax Discretionary Purchase

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Sales taxes empower governments to maintain critical public services, but they can also make medical essentials too expensive for those who need them. Campaigns against taxing obligatory items are spreading across the United States, forcing states to rethink their revenue generation decisions. Sales taxes’ price tags.

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Surprise Outcomes Edition: Cybercrime, Student Loans And CAN Capital

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The experts estimate that the United States government spent millions trying to enforce it and deprived the states of billions in tax revenue — all without managing to make any significant change in American alcohol consumption. The 13-year effort to curb alcohol consumption with a universal ban was pretty much a bust.

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Transcript: Jenny Johnson, Franklin Templeton

Barry Ritholtz

What you tend to see is as people earn more and have more and more savings, somebody said to me anecdotally, if you have sort of three years’ worth of savings of your income, that’s when you start to look for advice. I could do my own taxes. JOHNSON: Exactly, the tax… RITHOLTZ: The negative on a mutual fund is phantom taxes.

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2:00PM Water Cooler 1/24/2023 | naked capitalism

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In a note to me, Hauser summed up the case against Zients: ‘Biden at his best has picked battles with corporate America, from the tax plan funding the IRA to appointing regulators like Rohit Chopra, Gary Gensler, and Lina Khan to take on predatory behavior. The price tag was just shy of $9,000 — a reduced rate.

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Transcript: Brian Hamburger

Barry Ritholtz

And I would constantly hear them frustrated by the compliance department. So, I always assumed the reason compliance departments always said no was simple game theory. They put in a preferred income — RITHOLTZ: Right. HAMBURGER: And then they don’t look at the tax structure, right? RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Transcript: Angus Deaton

Barry Ritholtz

00:14:01 [Speaker Changed] And, and when people do the comparison, alright, you’re paying a lot more taxes there. 00:16:54 [Speaker Changed] Well, it’s not just income inequality, it’s inequality in many spaces. Ultimately in Canada and the uk you’re paying for that through higher taxes. Huge burden.