Monday, April 15, 2013

Nobel Prize-Winner Joe Stiglitz Blasts America's 1 Percent-Coddling Tax System | Alternet

Nobel Prize-Winner Joe Stiglitz Blasts America's 1 Percent-Coddling Tax System | Alternet
"It’s a sign of how well relentless propagandizing works that Joe Stiglitz has to devote a lengthy op-ed in the New York Times to debunking the idea that our income tax system, whose salient characteristic is low tax burdens for the rich, is good for anyone other than the rich. Economists have increasingly taken note of the fact that the US experiment in lowering taxes produced the opposite of the outcomes that were claimed for it, namely, spurring growth and increasing incomes in all cohorts (the barmy “trickle down” theory)."