--- Birgir Runolfsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> But the economic question is not whether the basketball star should play
> basketball or be a model. The economic question is for which team should
> he play; the one who values his services at $100,001 or another that 
> values his services at $1,000,000.

The question under debate is whether there is neutral taxation.
If the star plays for a team that pays him $1 million, and the government
taxes $800,000 of that, he will continue to play, so the tax did not alter
his incentives; the tax is neutral.

Fred Foldvary 


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