Monday, 28 September 2015

Capital taxes are double-plus taxes.

“A tax on capital income is equivalent to a tax on current consumption combined with a higher tax on future consumption, and so cannot in any relevant sense be said to tax everything equally.” *

Discuss.


* Stephen Landsburg, summarising D. McCloskey, in his article ‘McCloskey at Chicago

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