The US Fiscal System as an Opportunity Equalizing Device
By Marianne Page, John E. Roemer (08/98, En) See also Poverty and Inequality
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In democracies, at least, it is an axiom that taxation should be fair. What constitutes fairness depends, of course, on one?s theory of fairness or justice. Most Americans subscribe to some version of an equal-opportunity theory of justice. One of us has recently proposed a general conception of what equalizing opportunities requires (Roemer [1998]), and in this paper we apply that conception to the issue of income taxation in the United States.
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