{"id":5320,"date":"2007-12-12T23:23:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-12T17:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=2094"},"modified":"2007-12-12T23:23:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-12T17:53:00","slug":"should-entrepreneurial-geniuses-pay-a-higher-tax-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/should-entrepreneurial-geniuses-pay-a-higher-tax-rate\/","title":{"rendered":"Should Entrepreneurial Geniuses Pay a Higher Tax Rate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If so, so should tall men, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/12\/09\/magazine\/09heighttax.html\" title=\"The Height Tax\">argues a new study<\/a> by Greg Mankiw and Matthew Weinzierl.<\/p>\n<p>No, they&#8217;re not being facetious. The abstract of the paper <a href=\"http:\/\/gregmankiw.blogspot.com\/2007\/04\/optimal-taxation-of-height.html\" title=\" The Optimal Taxation of Height -- Greg Mankiw's blog\">states<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Should the income tax system include a tax credit for short taxpayers and a tax surcharge for tall ones? This paper shows that the standard utilitarian framework for tax policy analysis answers this question in the affirmative. This result has two possible interpretations. One interpretation is that individual attributes correlated with wages, such as height, should be considered more widely for determining tax liabilities. <\/p>\n<p>Alternatively, if policies such as a tax on height are rejected, then the standard utilitarian framework must in some way fail to capture our intuitive notions of distributive justice.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>You can download the paper <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economics.harvard.edu\/faculty\/mankiw\/files\/Optimal_Taxation_of_Height.pdf\" title=\"The Optimal Taxation of Height: A Case Study of Utilitarian Income Redistribution -- Greg Mankiw and Matthew Weinzierl -- pdf\">here<\/a> (pdf link).<\/p>\n<p>(<i>NY Times<\/i> link via email from <a href=\"http:\/\/ravivenkatesh.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Ravi Venkatesh\">Ravi Venkatesh<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If so, so should tall men, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/12\/09\/magazine\/09heighttax.html\" title=\"The Height Tax\">argues a new study<\/a> by Greg Mankiw and Matthew Weinzierl.<\/p>\n<p>No, they&#8217;re not being facetious. The abstract of the paper <a href=\"http:\/\/gregmankiw.blogspot.com\/2007\/04\/optimal-taxation-of-height.html\" title=\" The Optimal Taxation of Height -- Greg Mankiw's blog\">states<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Should the income tax system include a tax credit for short taxpayers and a tax surcharge for tall ones? This paper shows that the standard utilitarian framework for tax policy analysis answers this question in the affirmative. This result has two possible interpretations. One interpretation is that individual attributes correlated with wages, such as height, should be considered more widely for determining tax liabilities. <\/p>\n<p>Alternatively, if policies such as a tax on height are rejected, then the standard utilitarian framework must in some way fail to capture our intuitive notions of distributive justice.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>You can download the paper <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economics.harvard.edu\/faculty\/mankiw\/files\/Optimal_Taxation_of_Height.pdf\" title=\"The Optimal Taxation of Height: A Case Study of Utilitarian Income Redistribution -- Greg Mankiw and Matthew Weinzierl -- pdf\">here<\/a> (pdf link).<\/p>\n<p>(<i>NY Times<\/i> link via email from <a href=\"http:\/\/ravivenkatesh.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Ravi Venkatesh\">Ravi Venkatesh<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,24,28],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Should Entrepreneurial Geniuses Pay a Higher Tax Rate? - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/should-entrepreneurial-geniuses-pay-a-higher-tax-rate\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Should Entrepreneurial Geniuses Pay a Higher Tax Rate? - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"If so, so should tall men, argues a new study by Greg Mankiw and Matthew Weinzierl. 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