Pareto Superior Tax Reform: Some Simple Analytics

James M. Buchanan

Eastern Economic Journal, 1994, vol. 20, issue 1, pages 7-9

Abstract: The 1993 increases in marginal tax rates may have been Pareto inferior, in that everyone, rich and poor alike, may have been made worse off. A simple geometrical illustration makes the point.

Keywords: Tax (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1994

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