Employing data from a representative survey conducted in Germany, this paper examines public preferences for the size … and composition of government expenditure. We focus on public attitudes toward taxes, public debt incurrence, and public …, political ideology, and time preference are significantly related to individual attitudes toward public spending, taxes, and …

reduced by roughly 25 percent or taxes will need to be increased by about 33 percent, or some combination to avoid benefit …

side and avoid raising distortive taxes. Third, the fiscal framework should be improved by making fiscal rules less pro … enlarged mandate, while removing its power to veto the budget. This Working Paper relates to the 2012 OECD Economic Survey of …

government spending and raise taxes for the purposes of closing a government budget deficit. This paper analyzes the concept in …