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| | New Study: U.S. Corporate Tax Rate 50% Higher than Economic Competitors | | 2008-08-12 23:00:00 | | Tax Foundation President Scott Hodge this morning released the latest Tax Foundation Fiscal Fact in response to a new study from the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD). The OECD study shows that for the 17th consecutive year, the average rate of corporate taxes in non-U.S. countries fell while the U.S. corporate tax rate stayed the same.As a result of the U.S. failure to lower its corporate tax rate for more than two decades while other major trading nations lowered theirs, the U.S. corporate tax rate is now 50% higher than the OECD average. Nine key trading partners cut their rates during 2007.Said Hodge: Continued failure by U.S. tax policymakers to keep up with our top global economic competitors means that we're solidifying a trend that will result in our children and grandchildren not seeing the economic growth we've seen in our lifetimes. There's a real-wallet impact for Americans as we continue to sit idly by while other countries improve the way they | | By: Tax Policy Blog | | |
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| New Study, "The Need for an Integrated National Asymmetric Threat Strategy" | | 2008-08-01 17:35:28 | | On May 8, I was honored to chair one of four panels at a special seminar, "Dealing with Today's Asymmetric Threat," co-sponsored by the National Defense University and CACI International, with assistance from the Counterterrorism Foundation. The purpose of the seminar was to establish a framework for the development of an integrated and synchronized strategy, by the end of the calendar year, to address the asymmetrical threats to United States and global security. My panel, titled, "Global Strategy...(read more) | | By: An American Warning | | |
| | | Disturbing New Study About Obesity And Weight Loss | | 2008-05-06 22:40:11 | | Study Shows Some Americans Would Choose Divorce, Depression and Alcoholism Over ObesityMay 23, 2006 -- What would you be willing to sacrifice if it ensured you would never be fat?Would you give up a year of your life? Or 10 years?Would you rather be divorced, unable to have children, depressed, alcoholic?A disturbing new study out of Yale University's Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity found that nearly half -- 46 percent -- of 4,283 participants would rather give up a year of their life than be obese. Fifteen percent were willing to give up 10 years.In fact, a surprisingly large number of participants were willing to make extreme sacrifices if they could be sure they would never be obese.These are hypothetical questions, of course, and the answers are not set in stone. Obesity is a killer, so some participants probably figured that they were going to die earlier anyway if they were obese, but what surprised the researchers was the number of people who were willing to make extreme | | By: tips n trick diets success | | |
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| | New Study Confirms Cats Consider Humans Inferior | | 2007-12-28 11:58:00 | | CWT - Boston. A three year study of feline behavior conducted by the American Veterinary Medical Consortium and the Winnt Foundation found that cats view people as little more than a necessary aggravation. " We finally have verifiable proof of what cat owners have long suspected," said Dr. Cyril Groom, the lead research analyst participating in the study; " the methodology for the study was comprehensive and the results were reproduced multiple times in hundreds of trials - feline psychological and emotional responses to human beings are the same as those for litter boxes, other cats, and noisy squirrels."Dr. Groom added, " We determined what we have traditionally labeled 'feline aloofness' can be attributed to ' feline physiological inadequacy syndrome.' In layman's terms, cats are aware of their physical limitations and are, by and large, not happy about them. Cats resent having to depend on human beings for everyday tasks they believe they could accomplish more efficiently if | | By: Cats With Thumbs | | |
| | New Study on Gas Taxes | | 2007-10-17 07:00:00 | | The Tax Foundation has released a new comprehensive study that looks at the gasoline tax at both the federal and state level, both today and in a historical context. Here's an excerpt from the executive summary:Over the past century, Americans have witnessed a marked increase in mobility through safe and reliable roadways. This improved mobility has undoubtedly increased the overall quality of life in the United States. Gasoline taxes have provided the required funds to build the roads that brought America into the transportation age.Gasoline taxes are often mentioned as the best form of taxation from an economic perspective because they provide a system of road funding by simply charging road users when they fill up their tanks. This "user tax" adheres to what economists refer to as the benefit principle of taxation.Early gasoline taxes in the states were explicitly created in an attempt to charge road users for the privilege of using roads. However, from the very inception of gasoline taxation, public officials have faced temptation to divert gasoline tax revenue to projects that are only tangentially related to transportation and that are often purely politically motivated. When lawmakers do overcome the temptations to squander gasoline tax funds, and instead use the revenue strictly for road construction and maintenance, gasoline taxes can serve as a reasonable tax.Gasoline taxes have been in operation for well over 80 years in the United States. Unfortunately, the years of political pressure have eroded the original intent of gas taxes. In all too many instances, benefit-principle taxation has taken a backseat to political pandering. For instance, current federal highway legislation authorized over 6,000 earmarks from the highway trust fund. Some of these went to legitimate transportation programs, but others were earmarked for items such as the infamous "bridge to nowhere." Today, gasoline tax revenue is spent on everything from public education and museums to graffiti removal and parking garages.The paper includes many unique bits of information, such as the year in which each state first introduced its gasoline tax. In 1919, Oregon was the first state to implement a gas tax. The last state to implement one (outside of Hawaii and Alaska) was actually New York in 1929. Today, New York ranks 3rd highest in the taxes imposed on a gallon of gasoline. (Such information is also available in the study.) | | By: Tax Policy Blog | | |
| | New Study Uses Biofeedback to Predict a Gamer's Gameplay | | 2007-08-31 07:14:00 | | Budapest University of Technology and Economics (http://www.bme.hu/en/) are using GSR Biofeedback (Galvonic Skin Response, or skin conductance) in a study where they've shown that a gamer's actions can be predicted up to two seconds before they occur. Laufer says There are quite a few situations in life where there would be a need to provide a support for making a good decision at a good time. I have military applications (pilots) in mind, but surely we can find others as well. He also sees it being used in video games Another application I have in mind could be called a frustration game This type of game could detect when a player was going to act and change gameplay to throw off the player. This type of technology could be integrated into game controlers easily. This type of technology (GSR Biofeedback) should be used in more video games, but I'm not too sure that it would be very successful if used in a manner that would frustrate game players! It could definitely be used to help speed up a person's reaction time while playing a game. | | By: MindMods CogSciTech Biofeedback & Neurofeedbac | | |
| | New Study Questions the Wisdom of Judicial Mandates for Education Spending | | 2007-07-26 07:00:00 | | Most parents worry about the quality of the local public schools and try to ensure that their children receive the best education possible. But some people have taken the quest for improved public education a step further: to the courthouse. Over the past 30 years, lawsuits have come to be seen as a way to remedy alleged inadequacies in public education financing.Courts in 27 states have found their states' education spending to be constitutionally "inequitable" or "inadequate," and legislators have responded by increasing education spending—and taxes. But this method of increasing education funding is misguided and ineffective, according to a groundbreaking new study by the Tax Foundation, which reveals that these court mandates not only fall short of their goals, but also lead to long-term tax increases. According to author Chris Atkins:Lawsuits may be able to build schools, but they haven't proven effective at teaching kids. Higher tax rat | | By: Tax Policy Blog | | |
| | New Study Wastes Tax Dollars to Determine that Obesity Is 'Socially Contagious' | | 2007-07-26 03:30:00 | | Add to you list of government waste and worthless studies: Social Scientists have determined that being friends with fat people makes you fat. So, I guess the scientists' most logical solution is to pick on the fat kids to prevent future heart attacks. I should thank the government for taking money from my paycheck to pay these pathetic scientific posers.First of all, it is about time that the liberals in this Country make a decision. Either we are a poor Country, or we are an obese Country. We cannot have both. We are the only civilization in the history of the world where our poor people can eat so much that they become obese. I am sure that the starving North Korean citizen who literally has no food to eat only wished he had such a problem.If anything, this study demonstrates that it is our government that is overfed, not the people. How is it that liberals claim we have no money to fund their programs, but we can afford ridiculous studies like this? I have a solution for t | | By: Copious Dissent - Your Daily Dose of Liberty | | |
| | Google SERP Ranking Factors (New study) | | 2007-05-25 07:22:23 | | Among all the speculation and ancedotal evidence of people who think they have google “all figured out” on how to get the best ranking, finally there is a way to see the truth.
A german company called sistrix recently analyzed the top 100 Google SERP’s using 10,000 randomly generated keywords. As a result of [...] | | By: Dollars Blog | | |
| | Google SREP Ranking Factors (New study) | | 2007-05-24 20:06:52 | | Among all the speculation and ancedotal evidence of people who think they have google “all figured out” on how to get the best ranking, finally there is a way to see the truth.
A german company called sistrix analyzed the top 100 Google SREP’s using 10,000 randomly generated keywords. As a result of that [...] | | By: Dollars Blog | | |
| | New Study on the AMT | | 2007-05-18 07:00:00 | | We published a new study on the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) yesterday, titled "Fixing the Alternative Minimum Tax," in which Tax Foundation Chief Economist Patrick Fleenor explains that the problem with the AMT actually lies in the regular income tax code:Why do commentators routinely refer to our income tax code as Swiss cheese, and not cheddar? Because if American income were cheese, the untaxed portions of our income would be large holes caused by exclusions, deductions, exemptions and credits. In fact, the holes in our taxable income are bigger than the holes in Swiss cheese.The enormous sums of legally tax-free income fall into the two broad categories. More than one quarter of personal income received during 2006 was entirely excluded from the federal individual income tax base. Untaxed government transfers, in-kind compensation of employees, and a plethora of other types of income—none of these is included when the filer tallies his income on his tax form. Anot | | By: Tax Policy Blog | | |
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