Baker on Tax reform, Fernholz on DBCFT

Neil Irwin Warns of Financial Crisis from Corporate Tax Reform by Dean Baker

This is the Republican plot to kill the US corporate income tax as we know it by Tim Fernholz

Yet border adjustment—and the consumption tax behind it—deserves consideration because it is what Trump might propose if he were interested in crafting policy not with the aim of offending trade partners, liberals, and the Republican establishment, but rather with the goal of bringing investment back to the US while still conceding the reality of a globalized economy. It also would fit with the world view of his trade advisor Peter Navarro, who is eager to tear down the global supply chains that undergird the success of US multinationals today. And, together with the other big changes under consideration in Congress, it might actually shift more investment toward the US without the negative consequences of punitive tariffs or the ad hoc cronyism of Trump’s twitter bullying.

Atrios, DBCFT, Buttigieg

Your Moment Of Zen

Liberals Can’t Wait for Republicans to Adopt the Border-Adjusted Tax by VERONIQUE DE RUGY

Deluded Republicans are accidentally pushing for progressive corporation tax reform by Ben Chu

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Border-Adjustable Taxation, but Were Afraid (or too Bored) to Ask by Dan Mitchell

Trump Calls House GOP Tax Plan ‘Too Complicated.’ He May Be Right. by Dan Mitchell

Indiana Mayor Running for D.N.C. Chairman

Joseph A. Buttigieg, professor at Notre Dame.

"He is also the editor and translator of the multi-volume complete critical edition of Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks, a project that has been supported by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Several of his articles on Gramsci have been translated into Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, and Japanese. He was a founding member of the International Gramsci Society of which he is president. The Italian Minister of Culture appointed him to a commission of experts to oversee the preparation of the "edizione nazionale" of Gramsci's writings. Buttigieg serves on the editorial and advisory boards of various journals, and he is a member of the editorial collective of boundary 2."