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by dragonwriter 4305 days ago
> Hardly just the view of Austrian economists.

Its certainly not universally held among economists in general, as was claimed upthread. I didn't suggest it was exclusively the view of Austrian-school economists (a very different thing that Austrian economists), but that it might just possibly be universal among Austrian-school economists.

> Plenty of liberal economists including Robert Frank, Dean Baker, even Matt Yglesias think that corporate income taxes are a bad idea.

"even Matt Yglesias"? Matt Yglesias might be a liberal, but he isn't anything like an economist.