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The income tax is a much less effective tool for reducing inequalities than has often been thought.

— James Mirrlees

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Economics takes a while to learn, even if much of it is in a way quite simple. It is simple to be wrong as well as to be right, and it is none too easy to distinguish between them.

I must confess that I had expected the rigorous analysis of income taxation in the utilitarian manner to provide arguments for high tax rates. It has not done so.

An approximately linear income tax schedule is desirable; and in particular negative income tax proposals are strongly supported

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