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 that we can cheaply monitor > the act of paying wages, and so income taxes are feasible, and > government is larger.
Robin, why are you proposing to increase tax efficiency, knowing that it's going to lead to larger government? Also, labor supply curves tend to bend backwards at high incomes, so perhaps we should subsidize instead of tax the non-work time of high-income people?
