tourists. The main point is that tax rates can be manipulated to shift some of the tax burden from domestic residents onto … optimal tax policy. It begins by considering the determinants of tourist demand. Then, the well-known optimal commodity tax … consumers, but to have zero welfare weight. Thus, the government must balance the desire to tax tourists with the deadweight …

about outcomes that they consider fair. This puts liberals in the position of seeming to want to tax the winners to help the … the structure of markets so that they don't redistribute income upward. This book describes some of the key areas where … progressives can focus their efforts in restructuring the market so that more income flows to the bulk of the working population …