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We analyze the distributive justice of the combined burden of income taxes, social security taxes and public transfers on employee households in the United States on the federal level and in six member states. To investigate whether the treatment of families by the aggregate tax and transfer...
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Historians have devoted much attention to the Chartists' advocacy of non-economic political rights. Almost nothing has been written about the movement's articulate campaign for the revival of the British income tax. The intellectual content of this grass-roots support for the longest surviving...
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Although the identity of Chartism was bound up with political demands, many in the movement consistently pressed for the repeal of duplicative taxes on consumption and the introduction of even-handed taxation of land, capital and labour. Earlier popular radicals had asked for limited tax relief....
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