tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622776924781844427.post58582170190677944..comments2024-03-23T13:43:27.051-04:00Comments on Tax, Society & Culture: Blank on Collateral ComplianceAllisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16733465339926078146noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622776924781844427.post-79370337854578378552014-04-24T18:14:02.904-04:002014-04-24T18:14:02.904-04:00Not to get too off track but this recent presentat...Not to get too off track but this recent presentation by Edward Kleinbard is pretty impressive coming from a high level American policy academic. This is the first time I have seen someone at this high of a level of influence go so far off the American tax policy reservation. Even Kleinbard now admits to being an apostate. It makes a lot of the same points I did in my previous post about the benefits of GST/TPS and QST/TVQ.<br /><br />http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2014/04/kleinbard-delivers-.html<br /><br />Timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03894651289037073128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622776924781844427.post-8606431651418240152014-04-24T11:54:16.873-04:002014-04-24T11:54:16.873-04:00I have to say I am not impressed by this paper. Th...I have to say I am not impressed by this paper. The passport revocation issue is way way more complex than Blank seems to realize. Blank also seems to forget(or not realize) that Embassy and Consular services are paid for by user fees as is FDIC insurance(mostly). It would have been a better paper if he actually cited services paid for out of general revenues.<br /><br />Something I have realized for a long time is not matter how longingly the American progressive movement looks to Canada and its social safety net it is absolutely 100% opposed to taxes such as the GST/TPS and QST/TVQ. I remember a few years back when former Reagan(and at that time Republican) Treasury Tax policy official Bruce Bartlett in a video stated quite positively in his mind how every time an illegal alien in Toronto bought a bag of Doritos and paid GST/TPS they were in turn financing their own healthcare. Bartlett(who was Republican at the time but now a Democrat) was absolutely crucified by American progressive bloggers for being anti immigrant and xemophobic(It had something to do with the Doritos reference in addition to GST).<br /><br />As a final point Black seems to be inadvertently leading to the whole Government by user fee model Canada has gone down the road of but many Americans reject in favor of a more income tax/general fund driven system. I remember a few years back the CEO of Nav Canada(Canada's quasi private Air traffic control system) being asked by a Senate committee how the collected their ATC fees from aircraft owners to which the CEO stated they get the provincial sheriffs to impound any plane with prop/chauk locks that is seriously delinquent to which the assembled Senators accordingly praised. <br />Timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03894651289037073128noreply@blogger.com