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This is where I write all my stuff on taxation and democracy, including my PhD thesis.

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Open maxheld83 opened 6 years ago

maxheld83 commented 6 years ago

bastard keynesianism: people thing saving destroys the economy
negative-sum bias: people think government harms the economy (it does)
corporations-as-people: People want to tax non-natural persons
flypaper-theory: people think nominal incidence is the same as the burden of taxation

maxheld83 commented 6 years ago

and from McCaffery & Baron 2003: 12ff:

tax aversion effect: People negatively react to the label "tax". People prefer indirect taxes.
metric effect: People want more progressivity in % than in absolute terms
schelling effect: people prefer bonuses over penalites
disaggregation bias: people do not integrate different taxes on the same base