From Investopedia:
"Value-added taxation is based on a taxpayer's consumption of goods rather than his income. More than 160 countries around the world use value-added taxation. In America, advocates claim that replacing the current income tax system with a federal VAT would increase government revenue, help fund essential social services and reduce the federal deficit. Critics disagree, arguing that a VAT places an increased economic burden on lower-income taxpayers."
Monday, January 2, 2017
A 2017 Trend to Watch - Rural Redevelopment
Rural Americans have the power to pick presidents. They chose one who won’t help them: https://t.co/GPPa79pZiP via @slate— Dr.Steven D.Sanders (@DocEngineering) January 2, 2017
Climate Change Migration
From Grist:
"Taken together, the many factors that influence global immigration make it a huge and unwieldy thing to predict. No one knows exactly how many people will be uprooted thanks in part to climate change; estimates range from 50 million to as high as one billion. It’s also challenging to predict which regions will be hardest hit, but places already struggling with drought and flooding “will see their problems increase,” Bradatan says. Southeast Asia, the Amazon Basin, and a lot of Africa are all vulnerable. Coastal areas and small island countries will face major displacement, too, experts say, as sea levels rise. In the Pacific islands of Kiribati and Tuvalu, for example, more than 70 percent of households say they’ll probably move if the climate worsens."
"Taken together, the many factors that influence global immigration make it a huge and unwieldy thing to predict. No one knows exactly how many people will be uprooted thanks in part to climate change; estimates range from 50 million to as high as one billion. It’s also challenging to predict which regions will be hardest hit, but places already struggling with drought and flooding “will see their problems increase,” Bradatan says. Southeast Asia, the Amazon Basin, and a lot of Africa are all vulnerable. Coastal areas and small island countries will face major displacement, too, experts say, as sea levels rise. In the Pacific islands of Kiribati and Tuvalu, for example, more than 70 percent of households say they’ll probably move if the climate worsens."
We Could Have More Nice Things if We Build Affordably
NYC's brand new subway is the most expensive in the world — that's a problem https://t.co/yGZZgve5LR via @voxdotcom— Dr.Steven D.Sanders (@DocEngineering) January 2, 2017
Sunday, January 1, 2017
What Ohio Really Needs (and not in the 31-0 context)
Highways Aren't Enough: What Trump Needs to Know About Remaking the Rust Belt https://t.co/sV635goqoo— Dr.Steven D.Sanders (@DocEngineering) January 1, 2017
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