Archive for July, 2009

Dual but differentiated GST

The current General Sales Tax (GST) proposals being discussed conflate two objectives. Firstly, to have internal borderless travel of goods and services so that better economies of scale can be realized and secondly, to have a uniform consumption tax rate in all the states – which is ostensibly crucial to integrate the market and also [...]

Memo – Stopping the statists

Climate Doom Church vs. Copernicus
Unable to defend the EPA’s actions, the climate-change crew — , led by anonymous EPA officials — is doing what it does best: trashing Mr. Carlin as a “denier.” He is, we are told, “only” an economist (he in fact holds a degree in physics from CalTech). It wasn’t his “job” [...]