Dollars and sense: Why are some people morally against tax?
As the U.S. presidential election campaigns heat up, the economic
debate is dominated by bailouts, austerity and, inevitably, taxation.
Now a new study published in Symbolic Interaction asks why tax is such an important issue to voters and explores the moral ideas which underpin their views.
Americans are famously hostile to taxes even though they are not
heavily taxed in comparison to Canadians and the British. In their study
Dr Jeff Kidder and Dr Isaac Martin, from Northern Illinois University
and the University of California-San Diego, explore how middle class
feelings of exploitation lie behind this hostility.
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
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