Patry tries to figure out the RIAA’s line on home copying: It’s not a straight one

Making a mockery of the claim by several commenters on my post about the newspaper business a while back that Google produces no journalism, the company’s senior copyright counsel, William Patry, has written a wonderful exhaustively review of what exactly the Recording Industry Association of America has said through the years about making home copies [...]

The Fair Tax and its big break for the $200,000-plus crowd

Brad DeLong asks a crucial Fair Tax question: [I]t’s a mammoth tax cut for the crowd making more than $200,000 a year and a substantial tax increase for those making between $30,000 and $200,000 a year. Does this make economic sense? It is hard to see how: What makes the $200,000-plus crowd especially deserving of [...]

Enough on the Fair Tax. Let’s get back to the something important like Danish tax rates

In answer to some questions about what Danish income tax rates actually are, Jacob Braestrup of the Confederation of Danish Industries offers this explanation: The Danish top income tax bracket of 15 percent is what takes the top marginal tax to a total of 63 percent (from 49 percent – I know the difference is [...]