THE OPTIMAL SUPPLY OF PUBLIC GOODS AND THE DISTORTIONARY COST OF TAXATION
- 1 December 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in National Tax Journal
- Vol. 49 (4) , 513-533
- https://doi.org/10.1086/ntj41789224
Abstract
The conventional view of economists is that the optimal supply of public goods must directly take into account the cost of financing them with distortionary taxes, notably the income tax. However, ...Keywords
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