What's New from Ideal Taxes Association
Ideal Taxes Association is a non-profit corporation whose purpose is to sponsor research on public revenue and expenditure policies and their social and economic effects, and to publish articles and books related thereto. We have several recent publications including:
- IMF predicts US economy worse than world economy in 2010
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- The vote that (may have) changed the world (American Thinker, April 8, 2009)
- Obama Helps China in Preparation for a Dollar Collapse (Seeking Alpha, April 5, 2009)
- Choosing American Job Creation over Environmental Protection (Seeking Alpha, April 1, 2009)
- Zhou's International Reform Proposal - We Can't Afford to Ignore It (Seeking Alpha, March 26, 2009)
- The Economy's Next Move: 'Sugar High' Followed by Dollar Crash (Seeking Alpha, March 23, 2009)
- We Should Be Fighting a Trade War with China, Not Mexico (Seeking Alpha, March 19, 2009)
- U.S., China Increase Trade Deficit: Win-Win Situation (Seeking Alpha, March 18, 2009)
- GE's Immelt Thinks for Himself: U.S. Not Shifting to a Service Economy (Seeking Alpha, March 13, 2009)
- Bernanke Fires a Shot Across Summers' Bow (Seeking Alpha, March 11, 2009)
- The U.S. and China Should Trade Economic Policies (Seeking Alpha, March 2, 2009)
- What Would Help This Recession - VAT or FairTax (Seeking Alpha, February 16, 2009)
- Infrastructure Dream Deferred: Disaster for America's Children and Industrial Workers (Seeking Alpha, February 11, 2009)
- Recession Solution: Balancing Trade (Seeking Alpha, February 8, 2009)
- China's in a Recession; The IMF Is in a Dreamworld (Seeking Alpha, February 4, 2009)
- Imagining Geithner's Constructive Dialogue with China (Seeking Alpha, February 3, 2009)
- Obama Begins Jawboning Campaign with Chinese President Hu (Seeking Alpha, February 2, 2009)
- How the U.S. Could Balance Trade (Seeking Alpha, February 1, 2009)
- Obama's Economic Ideas Don't Address the Problem - And the Market Drops (Seeking Alpha, January 21, 2009)
- If Obama Doesn't Balance Trade, China Will Steal More U.S. Industries (Seeking Alpha, January 20, 2009)
- Buffett's Import Certificates Plan Could Pilot the Economy to a Safe Landing (Seeking Alpha, January 18, 2009).
- Geithner's tax problem gives Obama a chance to get it right (Seeking Alpha, January 15, 2009)
- Keynesian Borrowing Won't Solve Our Economic Problems (American Thinker, December 4, 2008)
- Obama Chooses a Free Trade Ideologue for Treasury (Enter Stage Right, December 1, 2008)
- How Warren Buffett can save the economy (Enter Stage Right, October 20, 2008)
- Palin Gets It, but the Bailout Makes it Worse (Enter Stage Right, October 6, 2008).
- Alternatives to Looting the Treasury (World Net Daily, October 3, 2008)
- How Clinton and Bush Slowed Economic Growth (Enter Stage Right, August 11, 2008)
- Straight Talk from Clinton's Trade Negotiator (American Thinker, June 14, 2008)
- How to recapture the Republican advantage on trade (Enter Stage Right, May 26, 2008)
- McCain's dream team: Paul, Huckabee, Buffett (World Net Daily, May 15, 2008)
- Time to get tough with China on trade (World Net Daily, May 9, 2008)
- How to stop China from stealing our jobs (World Net Daily, April 23, 2008)
- Obama's NAFTA hoax (Enter Stage Right, March 3, 2008)
- Private Sector: How to avoid recession and expand the economy (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, February 12, 2008)
- An economic stimulus for China (Enter Stage Right, February 11, 2008)
- The tax break China gets but you don't (World Net Daily, February 9, 2008)
- FairTax cut for 2-parent Families (World Net Daily, January 19, 2008)
- The Club against Growth (World Net Daily, January 8, 2008)
- It's a Wonderful Life Revisited: Morgan Stanley just sold out to Potter
- Working Paper #1 posted February 3: The Emperor's New Stimulus Package.
Trading Away Our Future can be ordered online now:
Here's what the Wikipedia entry on Balanced Trade says about Trading Away Our Future:
A more extensive argument for balanced trade, and a program to achieve balanced trade is presented in Trading Away Our Future, by Raymond Richman, Howard Richman and Jesse Richman. "A minimum standard for ensuring that trade does benefit all is that trade should be relatively in balance."
Here's what the Journal of Economic Literature (Vol 46, p. 782) says about Trading Away Our Future:
Examines the costs and benefits of U.S. trade and tax policies. Discusses why trade deficits matter; root of the trade deficit; the “ostrich” and “eagles” attitudes; how to balance trade; taxation of capital gains; the real estate tax; the corporate income tax; solving the low savings problem; how to protect one’s assets; and a program for a strong America. Raymond Richman is Professor Emeritus of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh and President of the Ideal Taxes Association. Howard Richman teaches economics on the Internet. Jesse Richman is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Old Dominion University. Index.
Following is the Table of Contents with active links if you want to read the Introduction or Chapters 1, 8, or 10. Check out Chapter 8 if you want to read what we wrote about the FairTax. And check out Chapter 10 for a summary of the book's recommendations and contributions:
Ideal Taxes Association is now seeking submissions of Working Papers about foreign trade and/or tax reform. If you would like to submit a Working Paper for publication, e-mail it as an attachment in Microsoft WORD format (subject line "Working Paper Submission") to Ideal Taxes Association President Raymond Richman (richmanpitt@aol.com). Ideal Taxes Association is a non-profit that doesn't pay for Working Papers, so you will not receive any compensation. Please include your name, snail mail address, and phone number in your e-mail. By submitting a Working Paper to Ideal Taxes Assocation you are agreeing that we may publish it online and enter it into our permanent online archive. Ideal Taxes Association also retains the right to edit your Working Paper for language and clarity. The author retains all rights to their work.
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