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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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But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativities and Deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting Ceremonies of Bravery, in the infamy of his nature. Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible Sun within us.
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James Mirrlees

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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