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From the Bookshelves: Open: The Progressive Case for Free Trade, Immigration, and Global Capital by Kimberly Clausing

Open: The Progressive Case for Free Trade, Immigration, and Global Capital by Kimberly Clausing (Harvard University Press, 2019) Globalization has a bad name. Critics on the Left have long attacked it for exploiting the poor and undermining labor. Today, the… … Continue reading

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San Antonio’s progressive crusade against Chick-fil-A | City Journal

Like many progressive crusades, San Antonio’s campaign against Chick-fil-A is largely symbolic—but important for precisely that reason. When politics become a weapon in the culture war, the stakes quickly escalate. Winning emboldens bullies to become still more aggressive. A lawsuit … Continue reading

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How Do Transfers and Progressive Taxes Affect the Distribution of Income?

Policymakers have recently proposed various ways of raising taxes on the richest Americans and making the tax code more progressive, including wealth taxes, estate taxes, and a higher marginal income tax rate. Changing the tax system, however, requires first understanding … Continue reading

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Is a User-Fee-Based System Incompatible With Progressive Income Taxation?

Reacting to my commentary, Who Should Pay to Clean Up Water, suggesting that the cost of cleaning up polluted water should be borne by those who pollute the water, a reader asked me to reconcile that position and my support … Continue reading

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America Already Has a Progressive Tax System

Policymakers at the federal level have expressed interest in raising the tax burden on high-income individuals. For instance, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) recently proposed raising the top marginal income tax rate to 70 percent. What these debates sometime gloss over … Continue reading

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