{"id":316,"date":"2017-03-09T05:15:55","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T05:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slrg.scot\/?page_id=316"},"modified":"2017-04-26T15:02:51","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T15:02:51","slug":"introduction-tax-damage","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/introduction-tax-damage\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction: tax damage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Taxes repress activities to which they are applied. The repressive effects of tax are called the\u00a0<em>deadweight losses\u00a0of taxation<\/em> or the <em>excess burden of taxation<\/em>. This means that taxes are good tools for reducing smoking or pollution; but bad for jobs, homes, productivity, enterprise, investment or progress of any kind. These articles show how taxes like Income Taxes and VAT repress economic activity by<em> at least \u00a31<\/em> for each \u00a31 of tax raised. Replacing arbitrary &#8216;deadweight taxes&#8217; with AGR <em>cancels\u00a0all such losses<\/em> because revenue raised on site rental values cannot reduce the area of land\u00a0available.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/deadweight17.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-503\" src=\"http:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/deadweight17-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/deadweight17-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/deadweight17-768x543.jpg 768w, https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/deadweight17-1024x724.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/deadweight17-825x583.jpg 825w, https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/deadweight17.jpg 1754w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taxes repress activities to which they are applied. The repressive effects of tax are called the\u00a0deadweight losses\u00a0of taxation or the excess burden of taxation. This means that taxes are good tools for reducing smoking or pollution; but bad for jobs, homes, productivity, enterprise, investment or progress of any kind. These articles show how taxes like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-316","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":603,"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/316\/revisions\/603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}