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[edit] Tax Foundation page
This was posted on my talk page - thought I would repost here for others to add their thoughts. Morphh (talk) 04:13, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
- Hello,
- I realize you've made many edits to the Tax Foundation article, but I think you're being overly defensive about your previous work by reversing ALL my edits to the page. Here are the reasons why the current structure is not correct:
- 1. In the "criticism" section, the language about "family tax burdens" is factually incorrect. The Tax Foundation does NOT publish any annual study of family tax burdens. The annual study in question is its "Tax Freedom Day" study that is release each April. That studies does not use families as the unit of analysis. It's an economy-wide average, which you can read for yourself at: http://www.taxfoundation.org/publications/show/93.html.
- 2. The "criticism" section lists only the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) as a critic of the Tax Foundation's "Tax Freedom Day" study. But this is clearly misleading. There are many, many groups that are critical of the concept of "Tax Freedom Day," not just the CBPP. In fact, think tanks in dozens of countries around the world calculate their own "Tax Freedom Day" studies, all of which are criticised by various groups for the same basic reasons the CBPP criticises the Tax Foundation's study. It is not the Tax Foundation per se as an organization that the CBPP and others criticise, it is the annual "Tax Freedom Day" study. The correct place to list the extensive criticisms of the concept of "Tax Freedom Day" is not on the Tax Foundation page, but on the Tax Freedom Day page where they are all collected in one location.
- For these reasons, I think my edits of the page are logical and fair. Please email me if you want to discuss, rather than simply reversing my edits outright.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.49.242.98 (talk) 02:35, 30 January 2007 (UTC).
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- Thanks for the info - you should have posted such on the talk page. Large blanking by anonymous IP addresses tend to get more aggressive responses. You had changed some other things such as reference type and general summary style format that conflicted with normal Wikipedia guidelines. It would have been better to make corrections to the text and summarize the criticism. It is not normal practice to just say.. go here. It is better to have a brief summary of the criticism and then say.. for more details go here. Morphh (talk) 03:55, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
