Transcript
  • 00:00    |    
    Initial credits
  • 00:06    |    
    Introduction
  • 01:50    |    
    Tax policy as if people mattered
  • 02:38    |    
    Conventional public finance
  • 03:04    |    
    Macro perspective
    • Fiscal budget
    • Optimal tax rate
    • Marginal tax rates
    • Role of economists
    • Guatemalan GDP
  • 08:25    |    
    Historical perspective
  • 09:26    |    
    Adolph Wagner
    • Welfare state
    • Public sector growth
    • General demoralization
    • Macro tax policy
    • Government debt
    • Governmental theft
    • New economic policy
    • Economic recession of 2008
    • Evil side of democracy
    • European welfare states
    • Persistent government growth
    • Frog experiment
  • 25:26    |    
    Johan Gustaf Knut Wicksell
    • Micro perspective of the taxpayer
    • Just taxation
    • Europe's transition to democracy
    • Class warfare
    • Lobbying
    • Government growth
    • Fiscal freeriding
    • Wicksell's tax regime
    • Inefficient tax regime
    • Tax justice
    • Fiscal compensation
    • Coercive redistribution
    • Micro-based solutions
    • Democracy filter
    • Direct democracy
    • Supermajorities
    • Sunset clause
    • Strategic game of taxation
    • Unreasonable burden
    • Fiscal evasion results
    • Wicksell's criterion
  • 56:42    |    
    Economic growth
  • 58:13    |    
    Progressive taxes
  • 01:00:39    |    
    Final words
  • 01:00:46    |    
    Final credits


Tax Policy: As If People Mattered

New Media  | 23 de agosto de 2011  | Vistas: 48

Fiscal policy is one of the important issues governments deal with during their administration. Different tax systems have been established around the world, which have ultimately proven to be inefficient; enabling states to grow at rates never seen before in history. In this conference, Christopher Lingle defies these systems and explains how they have failed to achieve their main goals. He explains the role that economists have played in empowering governments with taxpayers' money and describes how citizens suffer under such a coercive structure. Lingle talks about the two major theoretical currents regarding this topic and explains the need to limit the way people are being taxed, and focus primarily on increasing economic growth.




Conferencista

Economist and visiting professor