Re: What if and Why of Zero Taxation

["John O'Donnell" <jackodonnell@xxxxxxx>]

larson@xxxxxx wrote:
>
> Quoting Schulte-baeuminghaus <schulte.baeuminghaus@xxxxxxxxx>:

<<SNIP>>

> > If , by that, you mean that a key objective of a "welfare state or
> > even welfare system" is full employment, then it would be
> > difficult to disagree.
>
> No. The objective of the welfare state is gradually increasing, evenly
> distributed prosperity. A necessary, but not sufficient, condition for
> that is full employment.

No, employment is only an alternative method of distributing
prosperity, not a necessary one. It is sufficient for the
distribution of prosperity to simply distribute access to
the things that are prosperity or the means to obtain those
things.

> > As for taxes, full employment will usually mean that, ceteris paribus,
> > taxes will be lower.

Not necessarily so. If taxes are imposed on labor, such as
with economies that impose a personal income tax, the tax
collections will be greater, not less, the greater the
amount of employment.

<<SNIP>>

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