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20 Reasons to Kill the Corporate Tax

Paul Caron

U.S. News & World Report:  20 Reasons to Kill Corporate Taxes, by James Pethokoukis:

What to do about corporate tax rates represents a key difference between Obamanomics and McCainomics. John McCain wants to cut them. Barack Obama wants to raise them, at least on oil companies, through a windfall profits tax. But maybe they’re both wrong. Maybe we should just get rid of these levies altogether. Here are 20 reasons why it’s time to sack the corporate income tax: …

20.  Next year, 2009, will be the 100th anniversary of the U.S. corporate tax. What better time to eliminate it?

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Paul Caron
Paul Caron was named Duane and Kelly Roberts Dean of Pepperdine University School of Law on June 1, 2017. Dean Caron joined the Pepperdine faculty in 2013 after serving as the Dorothy and Leonard Straus Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law in the spring semesters of 2010 through 2013. He served as Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development at Pepperdine in 2015-2017. Before coming to Pepperdine, he was Associate Dean of Faculty and Charles Hartsock Professor of Law at the University of Cincinnati College of Law.
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