Daily Policy Digest
| Time to Excise Fuel Duty? Taxes comprise 60 percent of the cost of a liter of petrol or diesel in the United Kingdom... |
| Mismatched Data Hamper U.S. Accounting of Medicaid Costs There was a $43 billion gap in Medicaid spending in 2009 when data was compared from the states and the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services... |
| Is Opposition to Genetic Engineering Moral? Genetically modifying mosquitos has reduced the infected mosquito population by 80 percent in the Cayman Islands and by 90 percent in Brazil... |
| Tax Exodus: Five States that Residents Are Fleeing People have begun to move to different states to avoid increased taxation, resulting in a net loss of revenue for some states... |
| Cigarette Smuggling The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives estimates that illegal cigarette sales cost local, state and federal governments nearly $10 billion a year... |
| Diving Off the Fiscal Cliff Lifting marginal tax rates will cost the economy $2.20 in lost income for every $1 of new tax revenue... |
| Danish Government Rescinds Its Unwieldy Fat Tax After Denmark instituted a tax on saturated fats, 48 percent of families simply went to neighboring countries to stock up on fatty foods... |
| Two-Thirds of Millionaires Left Britain to Avoid 50 Percent Tax Rate About 10,000 fewer people reported an annual income of more than £1 million in the United Kingdom after a 50 percent tax rate was introduced on top earners before the 2010 election... |
| Federal Student Lending Swells Payments on 11 percent of student loan balances were 90 or more days behind in September, up from 8.9 percent at the end of June... |
| Regressive Effects of Regulation Regulations tend to drive up the price of many goods and lower wages of workers in regulated industries... |
