Fighting has erupted among the armed factions that deposed the country’s dictator and promised to make a democracy. What caused relations between the previously allied groups to fall apart?
Mai Hassan, associate professor of political science at MIT, studies the bureaucratic state, and seeks to understand the motivations, capacities, and roles of people administering state programs and social functions, including the democratization efforts in Kenya and elsewhere in East Africa, such as her native Sudan.
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The $1 Trillion “Tax Gap”: The IRS Make-Believe Number
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Whenever I’m asked about the “tax gap,” I point to the academic evidence, from multiple sources, and explain that lower tax rates and tax reform are the best way to get higher levels of tax compliance.
Indeed, even the pro-tax International Monetary Fund has published research clearly identifying punitive tax policy as the leading cause of tax evasion and tax avoidance.
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It’s time to take another look at this issue because the Biden Administration is trying to create a competing narrative.