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 . And then you dont vote for them again. Where laz the retail sales tax might be nickelled and dimed and you may not save all your sales receipts and realize what has happened to you. But there are conveniences of doing it one way or the other. We have to take a look at those. These are all efforts to get away from the horrible horrible effects of the income tax and moving to a more sensible neutra
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 investing. Now, lets think about how the federal tax system theets though two choices. If you consume your aftertax income right away, the federal government, by and large leaves you alone. Yeah we have a federal excise tax on gasoline. We have a federal excise tax on bows and arkansas rowrows, but theres really no federal tax on your income. What happens if you save and invest your income instead . Bet
Earnings. Olivia take a look at those declines, you are seeing major benchmark indexes in europe all up 2 or 2. 5 . And the broader continental benchmark off by 2 . Sour sentiment coming over from asian markets, but also Economic Data coming out of germany this morning, perhaps. Pimm there was market moving you cant out of germany. Olivia german Business Confidence is up today. You would have thought that would have produced pimm maybe theyre looking at china. Everyone is looking at china. Top headlines, stocks lower in china. The shanghai composite falling 8. 5 , the most since 2007. Investors are concerned the Chinese Government may hold the steps it has taken to prop up share prices. Earlier, the head of the council on Foreign Relations called a nightmare scenario for chinas leadership. The question is where does this government, where does this party get his legitimacy . They cant quite figure it out if markets cant work. These are broadly participated in markets. The real problem.
Now below 48. Roll back with china falling hard. The biggest drop in eight years. A 40 billion farm pa deal. Teva buying allergan and mylan and facebook. Its two price targets ahead of wednesdays earnings. The impact that is having on the nasdaq. First up this major selloff in china. The s p and nasdaq each coming a off the worst week since march. Jim, you have been fielding questions on twitter all morning long. Why the pain . You wrote, because we are china right now sample we are. I mean look i wish which werent. It was amazing to watch china roll over in the middle of the night and then see our futures unchanged. Thats just false. I mean the reason its false is because there is a link between minerals arc link between oil and us. So we have a lot of companies that i think arent going to do well with coin going down. More importantly the rest of the world, holly cow, is brazil going to take the product . Europe . You need to see europe get stronger, brazil not just kind of go away a
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 objective of approximately see and perceived income tax is devices for effecting it. The case for drastic progression in taxation must be rested on the case of inequality on the ethical or aesthetic judgment that the prevailing distribution of wealth and income reveals a degree and or kind of inequality which is distinctly evil or unlovely. Not particularly scientific. In fact, it is reasonable to expe