June 22, 2009

Taxing consumer acts: Connecting us to civic society?

 

Richard visiting his distant relative in Washington 09
 
Tax systems shape how we think about consumption
“Taxes class themselves readily according to the basis on which they rest. 1. Capital. 2. Income.        3. Consumption. ……………A government may select either of these bases for the establishment of its system of taxation, and so frame it as to [...]