Majority Rule, Rights, and Taxation

Zacharias Dermatis, Panagiotis Evangelopoulos and Panagiotis Liargovas
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Panagiotis Evangelopoulos: University of Peloponnese

Chapter 2 in Taxation in Crisis, 2017, pp 23-42 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The majority rule, enjoying as it does very widespread acceptance in modern democracies, goes beyond its jurisdictional role in the political management of society to create a new spectrum of rights generally known as rights to equality. On the pretext of implementing rights of equality, the custodians of the electoral mandate minimize the field of applicability of fundamental rights of individual liberty, with the result that the society enters a vicious circle of economic stagnation, political alienation, and social decline. In this context, the rights to equality that are prescribed by the majority rule generally, are accompanied by the progressive taxation. Progressive taxation is becoming the most powerful economic tool for the enforcement of rights to equality in society as a whole. By contrast, the rights to liberty that are defined by the configuration of theories of natural and contractual rights—based on maximization of individual interest, rational choice, and their harmonization with the achievement of social well-being—prove to be the most effective institutional framework for the contemporary democracy, based on the analogical taxation which the most demonstrated both form and application, is the flat tax.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-65310-5_2

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