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Taxation, Craig D. Bell
Because Parliament Can, Jim Corkery, Anthea Gerrard, Damien Lockie
Because Parliament Can, Jim Corkery, Anthea Gerrard, Damien Lockie
Anthea Gerrard
Comment on the drafting of arbitrary taxation and the large variety of taxes levied in Australia at various levels of government. A carbon tax may be preferred to a 'cap and trade' emissions trading system.
The Conscientious Legislator And Public Opinion On Taxes, Lawrence A. Zelenak
The Conscientious Legislator And Public Opinion On Taxes, Lawrence A. Zelenak
Faculty Scholarship
This essay examines some of the difficulties of understanding public opinion on taxes, and offers some suggestions as to how the conscientious legislator might proceed in light of those difficulties. The essay begins by describing two contexts in which public opinion appears to contradict itself, and suggests how the apparent contradictions might be resolved. It then offers three suggestions for the conscientious legislator whose goal is to discern (rather than to manipulate) public opinion on taxes - to be neither unduly optimistic nor despairing about the potential for educating the public on tax policy issues, to understand and guard against …