Disagreeing With John Tamny About SALT

My Disagreement with John Tamny on SALT Deductions

In a recent essay, John Tamny, at RealClearMarkets got rather SALTy. Worth reading. John (whom I know and like, and have hosted to give a talk to my big undergrad “Intro to Capitalism” class at Duke) is taking issue with the claims I made about state and local tax deductions (SALT) here, at AIER’s The Daily Economy. Now, John is a fine, smart man. But we really do disagree about this.  Consider two points: First, John claims that the most import…

Disagreeing With John Tamny About SALT

Michael Munger, Am Inst for Econ Research Lower taxes are a good thing — unless they just shift the cost from overspenders onto taxpayers in the future.