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| Gettin' In Tune wrote: | | I can easily plug the data into STATA and run a regression analysis, but what is the hypothesis? |
If I had the data, I'd probably just run a calculation for covariance. I'm not looking for a specific model.
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| The covariance between year and taxes? What would that tell you? |
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| Gettin' In Tune wrote: | | The covariance between year and taxes? What would that tell you? |
Mmmm...
No, not the covariance between the year and taxes. The covariance between my chosen measure of economic prosperity and "tax burden" (and that's what I'm seeking - a reasonable measure of the latter variable).
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| Philosophos wrote: | | The covariance between my chosen measure of economic prosperity and "tax burden" (and that's what I'm seeking - a reasonable measure of the latter variable). |
How would you intertemporally weight economic prosperity? IOW, how would you measure and compare economic prosperity in the 19th century compared to the 21st century? |
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| You may want to check out this paper, particularly table 11.2. I do not think you are going to find studies of the historical tax burdens in the US as terms of GDP going back before 1929, but I could be wrong: http://www.nber.org/chapters/c5981.pdf |
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| Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 10:55 am Post subject: |
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| Gettin' In Tune wrote: | | You may want to check out this paper, particularly table 11.2. I do not think you are going to find studies of the historical tax burdens in the US as terms of GDP going back before 1929, but I could be wrong: http://www.nber.org/chapters/c5981.pdf |
Table 11.2 ftw!!
Pages 8 & 9 btw.
Now if it were just adjusted for inflation...
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| Mr_C wrote: | | Now if it were just adjusted for inflation... |
Don't be a dumbass. I'll try to answer your economic questions, but your issue with their methodology?
I'd suggest contacting themselves directly, NBER. |
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| Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 1:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Gettin' In Tune wrote: | | Mr_C wrote: | | Now if it were just adjusted for inflation... |
Don't be a dumbass. I'll try to answer your economic questions, but your issue with their methodology?
I'd suggest contacting themselves directly, NBER. |
...I was complementing your find and I made an observation and get called a dumbass. Nice. |
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| Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 3:12 pm Post subject: |
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| Mr_C wrote: | | Gettin' In Tune wrote: | | Mr_C wrote: | | Now if it were just adjusted for inflation... |
Don't be a dumbass. I'll try to answer your economic questions, but your issue with their methodology?
I'd suggest contacting themselves directly, NBER. |
...I was complementing your find and I made an observation and get called a dumbass. Nice. |
its better than being a fickle twatwaffle...
oh... heh. sorry. 
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Anything is better than being Mr_Chaz. I would consider dumbass to be a complimentative stretch.
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Perhaps he's more akin to a Candiru, aka the Dickfish (tm) (for those who remember that IG show).
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| Mr_C wrote: | | ...I was complementing your find and I made an observation and get called a dumbass. Nice. |
oh. thanks and sorry. What is your observation? |
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