POPULAR SUPPORT FOR PROGRESSIVE TAXATION AND THE RELATIVE INCOME HYPOTHESIS

Authors
MITRA T OK EA KOCKESEN L
Citation
T. Mitra et al., POPULAR SUPPORT FOR PROGRESSIVE TAXATION AND THE RELATIVE INCOME HYPOTHESIS, Economics letters, 58(1), 1998, pp. 69-76
Citations number
19
Categorie Soggetti
Economics
Journal title
Economics letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
01651765
Volume
58
Issue
1
Year of publication
1998
Pages
69 - 76
Database
ISI
SICI code
0165-1765(1998)58:1<69:PSFPTA>2.0.ZU;2-2
Abstract
We show that a marginal rate progressive tax always defeats a marginal rate regressive tax under pairwise majority voting (so long as the la tter collects at least as much revenue as the former one) irrespective of whether the voters care at all about their relative incomes or not . (C) 1998 Elsevier Science S.A.