Benefit-Cost Analysis and Distortionary Taxes: A Public Choice Approach

Ted Bergstrom ()

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Abstract: This paper seeks useful conditions relating individual preferences to willingness to support specific governmental tax-expenditure proposals. This discussion follows Wicksell in considering only tax-expenditure proposals that specifically tie expenditures to taxes that finance them.

JEL-codes: D6 D7 H (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1994-01-18
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Working Paper: Benefits-Cost Analysis and Distortionary Taxes: A Public Choice Approach (1993)
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