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Your apples are ripe. It is time to harvest them. What is the best way to harvest those apples . Do you pick them from the tree or do you chop down the tree . Apples are income. The trees are capital. The reason we want a socalled, consumptionbased tax because we dont want to mistreat capital. But to understand why it is so foolish, dont think about marxism, socialism, free market theories think about it this way, if you chop down the tree or more accurately what the current tax system does if you harvest apples by sawing off branches of the tree, what does that do for your longrun prosperity,...

Of these tax changes. So no net cost to the government over time. And you have peoples income up about 10 and additional jobs so more people are working. Now that is close to a free lunch as you can get. And thats the damage done by the current tax system. All the neutral tax systems are a means of getting the three layers of tax. Some are collected at business level. Some collected only at retail. Now my favorite, the personal expenditure tax is put down your income subtract your savings pay tax and whats left . That way each year you sit down and fill out a form and you say, they took what ....

Prosperity. And you heard alvin just say over and over again, consumption based tax. My job on the panel is to try to explain why thats important. Its important because the current tax system treats income that you sai and invest much much worse than the income you can consume. Think about it in this very simple fashion. You make some money. You pay tax on that money. Whats left . Disposable income. Aftertax income. You have two choices of what to do tw the aftertax income. You can consume it right away, or you can consume it in the future. Whats consuming in the future . Its saving and invest...

In the 1940s and putting together the concept of income we now use today under the income tax they were neglecting the adverse effect on the labor force and it wasnt unknown. The godfather of the income tax henry simons and one of the two leading godfathers admitted that it would damage the economy and his current disciples dont want you to remember that or theyve forgotten it. Heres what simons said about Income Taxation. Income taxation is broadly an instrument of economic control. A means of mitigating economic inequality which well assume that moderation of inequality is an important objec...

And for comparable reasons the inefficient ability of what they want. So what does not quadruple the tax capital and then to achieve a substantial movement went to the criteria what is the tax reform. And that is extremely positive step with us pace that has double or triple taxes for call that trump in new proposal makes very positive steps been. So i think we have the best opportunity and quite literally in two decades to have a positive progrowth tax reform done and it has the potential if the nba correctly to increase in gdp to lead to the extraordinarily positive economy with wages increa...