Glazer, Amihai; Kanniainen, Vesa; Poutvaara, Panu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
that a utilitarian government never equalizes after-tax incomes, even when it can impose group-specific lump-sum taxes. If … migration is impossible, a utilitarian government may even transfer income from the poor to the rich, reducing the rents earned …