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"The Get America Working! approach would work, in effect, by correcting a major price distortion. The current U.S. Internal Revenue Code taxes employment far more heavily than it does the use of natural resources. This distortion has grown progressively worse as payroll taxes have grown. Revising this distortion would increase employment, equity and overall economic vigor importantly. And it would do so by responding to market price signals, not through clumsy and expensive government interventions."

— Richard Zeckhauser

Healthcare can get America working

Date: 
Thu, 09/24/2009
Source: 
Financial Times
Author: 
Michael Lind, New America Foundation