On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 11:36:31AM -0400, Robin Hanson wrote:
> Once upon a time income taxes were difficult to collect, because
> income was hard to cheaply monitor. So governments used less
> efficient taxes, and arguably this was a reason the size of
> government was lower. Today it seems tha
Why would you want to tax leisure?
Wouldn't this promote less intense (i.e. more leisurely) and thus, less
productive work?
Gustavo
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From: "Robin Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Tax Leisure via Time
At 11:33 AM 4/25/02 -0700, john hull wrote:
>Instead of surveillance schemes that sound a bit
>Big-Brotheresque, no offense, why not just take the
>forms already extant and merely switch hours worked
>for income earned?
We know how to audit returns to check on the income
earned. The question is
Fred Foldvary wrote:
>Real-estate taxes were not that difficult to collect, and rather efficient.
I won't argue that here, as it isn't central to this discussion.
> > And as the technology of
> > surveillance improves, it should get easier to monitor this.
>
>The technology would need to keep a
Howdy,
Instead of surveillance schemes that sound a bit
Big-Brotheresque, no offense, why not just take the
forms already extant and merely switch hours worked
for income earned?
Question: Would such a program necessarily imply flat
taxation, instead of progressive, since income will
not be repo
Martin Feldstein has recently done work on the distortions created by
the income tax that take into account broader notions of labor supply
behavior, such as shifting taxable income into untaxed fringe benefits
or better working conditions. The cite is
Feldstein, Martin. "Tax Avoidance and the D
--- Robin Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Once upon a time income taxes were difficult to collect, because
> income was hard to cheaply monitor. So governments used less
> efficient taxes,
Not necessarily. Real-estate taxes were not that difficult to collect, and
rather efficient. Land has
Once upon a time income taxes were difficult to collect, because
income was hard to cheaply monitor. So governments used less
efficient taxes, and arguably this was a reason the size of
government was lower. Today it seems that we can cheaply monitor
the act of paying wages, and so income taxes
Awhile back, we talked about the striking parallels between the behavior of
automatic control systems and the business cycle. Robin pointed out,
correctly, that automatic control theory is an application of single-agent
decision theory.
He also pointed out that economics is basically a multi-age
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I am a dunce and I have inadvertently given Bryan's secret away. I promise, however,
not to reveal the names of the other participants (especially if they
send me large wads of cash - you know who you are.) My apologies to all.
Alex
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