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Five Myths about the Uninsured in America
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1 Statistics compiled by Bruce Bartlett based on information provided by Price Waterhouse and Coopers & Lybrand tax guides. Wall Street Journal, August 29, 1989. back2 Calculations by James Gwartney and Richard Stroup. Reproduced in Yale Brozen, "The Cost of Bad Government," National Center for Policy Analysis, NCPA Policy Report No. 122, August 1986. back
4 Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income Bulletin, Spring 1990, Washington, DC, 1990, pp. 15-25. back
5 Based on U.S. Department of the Treasury data reprinted in Ronald Utt, "Capital Gains Taxation: The Evidence Calls for a Reduction in Rates," Heritage Foundation Backgrounder, No. 704, May 2, 1989, Table 3, p. 10.back
6 See Lawrence Lindsey, The Growth Experiment (New York: Basic Books, 1990). back
7 Hernando De Soto, “The Role of the Informal Economy in Peru” in John Goodman and Ramona Marotz-Baden, Fighting the War of Ideas in Latin America (Dallas, Texas: National Center for Policy Analysis, 1990), p. 21. See also De Soto, The Other Path (New York: Harper & Row, 1989). back
8 De Soto, "The Role of the Informal Economy in Peru," pp. 23-25. back
9 Goodman and Marotz-Baden, "Editors, Introduction," Fighting the War of Ideas, p. 117. back
11 Jesus E. Rodriguez, "Marketing Ideas in Venezuela," in Goodman and Marotz-Baden, Fighting the War of Ideas, p. 52. back
12 Alan Reynolds, "The Case for Radical Tax Reform in Latin America," in Goodman and Marotz-Baden, Fighting the War of Ideas, pp. 234-239. back
15 De Soto, "The War of Ideas in Peru," in Goodman and Marotz-Baden, Fighting the War of Ideas in Latin America, pp. 30-31.back
16 Using the statistical equation for the growth-maximizing tax rate, the mean values of the variables, other than the tax variables, were substituted into the equation to obtain the predicted per capita real economic growth rate. back