de Rugy vs. Chait: Round 3
by Blog Feed • February 10, 2012 • Conservative Bloggers News Feed, General • 0 Comments
After being called out very elegantly and eloquently by Clive Crook in The Atlantic about the fact that the U.S. tax system is in fact more progressive than other countries, Jonathan Chait responds one last time . His problem with my original argument, he writes, nicely this time, is that it is wrong to use the share of tax paid by the top earners to show the progressivity of a tax system. Anyone who looks at the measure of progressivity used by the OECD knows it isn’t easy to illustrate in a meaningful way (the U…
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de Rugy vs. Chait: Round 3
