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An approximately linear income tax schedule is desirable; and in particular negative income tax proposals are strongly supported,
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I must confess that I had expected the rigorous analysis of income taxation in the utilitarian manner to provide arguments for high tax rates. It has not done so.
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The income tax is a much less effective tool for reducing inequalities than has often been thought.
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Economics takes a while to learn, even if much of it is in a way quite simple. It is simple to be wrong as well as to be right, and it is none too easy to distinguish between them.
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It is an undeniable privilege of every man to prove himself right in the thesis that the world is his enemy; for if he reiterates it frequently enough and makes it the background of his conduct he is bound eventually to be right.
George F. Kennan
James Mirrlees
Born:
July 5, 1936
Died:
August 29, 2018
(aged 82)
Bio:
Sir James Alexander Mirrlees was a Scottish economist and winner of the 1996 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He was knighted in 1998.
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