maandag 15 juni 2009

Do you really want to tax ability?

N. Gregory Mankiw , Matthew Weinzierl.

Should the income tax system include a tax credit for short taxpayers and a tax surcharge for tall ones? This column explains how the standard utilitarian framework for tax policy analysis says that individual attributes correlated with wages, such as height, should determine tax liabilities. Taller individuals should pay higher taxes. If this is objectionable, then something is wrong with the standard framework.Read the full article here.

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