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VAT and Consumption Taxes — How Most of the World Funds Government Without an Income Tax
Over 170 countries use a Value Added Tax. The U.S. doesn't. Here's how VAT works, why it's economically efficient, who bears the burden, and why the U.S. has resisted adopting what most economists consider a superior tax instrument.
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How the U.S. Tax Code Was Built — 160 Years of Rates, Loopholes, and Reform
The U.S. federal income tax didn't exist until 1861. Today it generates $2.5 trillion annually and spans 75,000 pages. Here's how it grew from a Civil War emergency measure to the most complex tax system in the developed world.
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How Wealth Taxes Work — And Why They're So Hard to Implement
France tried it and abolished it. Sweden tried it and abolished it. The U.S. has never tried it at the federal level. Wealth taxes — annual levies on net worth rather than income — are politically popular and economically complicated. Here's why.
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The Tax Code — What It Is, Where It Came From, and Why It's So Complicated
The U.S. tax code runs to nearly 7,000 pages and generates $4+ trillion in federal revenue annually. It didn't start that way. Here's the history, structure, and logic of how America taxes itself.
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