Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Do we tax capital income? -- Does the United States tax capital income? / Joel Slemrod -- Comment / Reed Shuldiner -- Comment / Jane Gravelle -- Should we tax capital income? -- Should capital income be subject to consumption-based taxation? / George Zodrow --...

It is entirely appropriate that the study of public finance take seriously "behavioralʺ inconsistencies with traditional models of individual and collective decision-making. This raises the question of whether the state should play a role in protecting individuals from themselves, and whether...