70% tax rates?…GASP!

January 23, 2019 · by · in ,

There’s been a lot of talk, and confusion, in the news recently about income tax rates, and marginal tax rates in particular, and anytime someone in the news mentions anything ‘marginal’ economists get overly excited.   Here’s a quote from a…

Why a $1 per gallon gas tax might make sense (cents?)

January 8, 2019 · by · in , , ,

This is modified from a post I wrote a while ago for my own blog “Environmental Economics.”  There I spend a good bit of time trying to convince people that the easiest solution to many environmental problems is to get…