transfers and public goods are each integrated into a common optimal tax framework with the income tax and commodity taxes at …

for redistribution. We leverage a quasi-experiment in Finland, where every year on the so-called tax day, the authorities … earnings of the top 10% are unfair, but that public support for redistribution remains largely unaffected. A notable exception … are top earners, who decrease their support for redistribution, and young people, who increase their support for …

that a utilitarian government never equalizes after-tax incomes, even when it can impose group-specific lump-sum taxes. If …