Trump has said that he wants to remove the tax deductibility of interest. If he can do that, fine. But I hope… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
On the flat tax, the more you compress the tax rates, the more you untax where the income is really made, at… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
Trump's claims that he's making taxes more democratic for the people, but it actually is a vast sucking of income and wealth… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
Trump's junk economics is the illusion that if we cut the taxes on the wealthiest brackets, it'll all trickle down. But it… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
Nobody prefers to earn income any more, because that's taxable. Rich people prefer to make capital gains. — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
Textbooks don't teach people how to avoid paying any income tax. But that's what an army of tax lawyers and corporate tax… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
Income is sucked upward to the creditors, who then foreclose on the assets of debtors. This shrinks tax revenue, forcing public budgets… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
What do the 5%, or the 1% actually use their money for? They lend it back to the economy at large, they… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
The worst loophole is what Donald Trump has talked about: the tax deductibility of interest. If you let real estate owners or… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
The biggest industrial sector next to real estate is oil, gas and other mineral resources. They don't report any taxable income, because… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
If you want to see where Trump is moving, look at what the United States neoliberals advised Russia to do after 1991,… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
You have to abolish pension plans. You have to abolish social spending. You have to raise taxes. You have to have at… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
So the Bush-Obama administration has taken a fiscal stance diametrically opposed to that of the patron saint of free enterprise. While escalating… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
If you're a wealthy heir with a trust fund, and you sell stocks, make your 10% gains since Donald Trump, and then… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
The current U.S. and Eurozone depression isn't because of China. It's because of domestic debt deflation. Commodity prices and consumer spending are… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
That's the "magic" of double-taxation treaties: you can shop around for the lowest taxer. — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
In real estate you can avoid ever having to pay a capital gains tax, decade after decade, century after century. When you… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
Elites play the role today that landlords played under feudalism. They levy interest and financial fees that are like a tax, to… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
I think the Republican tax law is so bad that it almost guarantees a Republican victory, precisely because it's so bad. The… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
From 2008 to 2016 all the growth in the American economy, all the growth in national income, was earned just by the… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
I think something like three-quarters of American currency is held abroad, by drug dealers, by tax evaders, Russians and Chinese. Other people… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
So, what people are actually left with to spend is maybe 25 to 30% of their income on goods and services, after… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
Europe is creating the flight of refugees that's tearing it apart politically, and leading rightwing nationalist parties to gain power to withdraw from the… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
This is not really currency that circulates. It's like the old joke about expensive vintage wine. Wine prices will go up and once in… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
Nobody prefers to earn income any more, because that's taxable. Rich people prefer to make capital gains. — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
Nothing could be better for the economy than to get rid of fracking. — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
If you end internet neutrality and permit mergers of the big information technology corporations, that's a form of rent seeking. It's part of today's… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
Deflation means a slowdown of income growth. Markets shrink, new capital investment and employment also taper off, so wages decline. That is what's happening… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
What's bad for the frackers usually is good for the rest of the world. — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
You could say that the vote to withdraw from Europe is, it's really a vote of the British middle class, the working class, to… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
Actually, high housing prices don't help the economy. They raise the cost of living. — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
When economists speak of money, they neglect that all money and credit is debt. That is the essence of bookkeeping and accounting. There are… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
The United States and Europe are in a state of debt deflation, where people and businesses have to pay banks instead of spending their… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
On the flat tax, the more you compress the tax rates, the more you untax where the income is really made, at the top… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
