{"id":62,"date":"2017-03-05T15:33:11","date_gmt":"2017-03-05T15:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slrg.scot\/?page_id=62"},"modified":"2017-03-08T11:12:37","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T11:12:37","slug":"tax-damage","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/tax-damage\/","title":{"rendered":"Avoidable tax damage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Taxes repress activities to which they are applied. The repressive effects of tax are called <em>deadweight losses<\/em> or the <em>excess burden<\/em>. Good tools, then, 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>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taxes repress activities to which they are applied. The repressive effects of tax are called deadweight losses or the excess burden. Good tools, then, 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 [&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-62","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62","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=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277,"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62\/revisions\/277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}