Our Economic Times: Capital Gains and Labor Income

This column was published in Savannah Morning News.

That taxes and job creation are garnering the most public attention two weeks before the national election is to be expected. And, correctly I believe, much focus is being paid to the revenue side of the account. However, what shape taxes take, and how they dictate employment and economic prosperity, in the coming years remains an ubiquitous and complex question. At least one notion resonates with consensus across America: It is the risk-taking entrepreneur who facilitates small-business creation and is the source of our fastest job growth...