Re:An Analysis of Motivations for Income Redistribution [pdf]
by aninhumer on Friday September 09, 2016 @08:45PM
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Well I'm highly suspicious of arguments that anything in economics is "inherently immoral". I prefer to talk about outcomes.
But in any case, I'm not suggesting a labour tax, I'm suggesting a wealth tax. I think my argument is similar to George's: just as LVT encourages efficient use of land, a wealth tax encourages efficient use of wealth in general.
I'd just like to see rents in general taxed rather than labor taxed. The theory of rents provides a means to distinguish between ... "socially useful" wealth and "sort of parasitic" wealth."
As you note, there's nothing original about this.