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The Myth Of Pretax Income, Lawrence Zelenak
The Myth Of Pretax Income, Lawrence Zelenak
Michigan Law Review
What constitutes a fair distribution of the burdens of taxation among the members of a society? Even as politicians and academics vigorously debate the answer to that question, there is widespread agreement that all are asking the right question. In The Myth of Ownership, however, Liam Murphy and Thomas Nagel claim that everyone has been asking the wrong question. To ask about the fair distribution of tax burdens is to take the distribution of pretax incomes as "presumptively just," so that justice in taxation "is a question of what justifies departures from that baseline" (p. 15). But Murphy and Nagel …
The Working Poor Are Paying For Government Benefits: Fixing The Hole In The Anti-Poverty Purse, Francine J. Lipman
The Working Poor Are Paying For Government Benefits: Fixing The Hole In The Anti-Poverty Purse, Francine J. Lipman
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