Choosing metarules for legal change
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T. Nicolaus Tideman, in a 1992 study, deals with the metarules for legal change. The way in which legal rules are changed could depend on the reason for the change. The metarules that arise out of this study include that rule changes should have a minimal impact on relative welfare and that these changes should create the conditions that would have occurred if the correct rules had been implemented in the past. Changes in legal rules should avoid large wealth transfers. Site-value taxation should either reimburse land owners for the decrease in land value or provide no reimbursement at all.
Publication Name: American Economic Review
Subject: Economics
ISSN: 0002-8282
Year: 1992
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Being just while conceptions of justice are changing
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The ideas about justice as it relates to land can change as moral evolution occurs. A concept of land as the common heritage of all citizens leads to the conclusion that its rental value should be collected for a guaranteed income or for public reasons. An analysis of idealized cases reveals that people may have to give up the expectations that mistaken rules have produced when an error in social rules is corrected. An evaluation of the objectives of conflicting principles can result in new principles that resolve the conflict.
Publication Name: American Economic Review
Subject: Economics
ISSN: 0002-8282
Year: 1992
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Equity premises and the case for taxing rent
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The concept of the 'level playing field' states that neutral and uniform tax policies are both efficient and just. Fiscal policy cannot be efficient while ignoring justice. The public resorts to such counterproductive tactics as looting and price controls if tax justice is not achieved. The taxation of rent is supported by the majority of functional and incentive arguments, while the opposition to the taxation of rent is based on value judgments. Sixteen concepts of tax justice are reviewed.
Publication Name: American Economic Review
Subject: Economics
ISSN: 0002-8282
Year: 1992
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