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Majority Voting over Publicly Provided Goods, Redistribution, and Income Taxation

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Federal, state, and many local governments make decisions that involve taxation, redistribution, and provision of public goods. Positive models to study these issues encounter the well‐known problem that majority‐voting equilibrium (MVE) may fail to exist in such multidimensional models. In this paper, with reasonable restrictions on preferences, I provide sufficient conditions for the existence of an MVE in a model with linear income tax and government expenditure policies that affect individual labor/leisure choices. My majority‐voting result takes account of the possibility that low‐skill individuals will drop out of the labor force under some tax and expenditure configurations.

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  • Stephen M. Calabrese, 2007. "Majority Voting over Publicly Provided Goods, Redistribution, and Income Taxation," Journal of Public Economic Theory, Association for Public Economic Theory, vol. 9(2), pages 319-334, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jpbect:v:9:y:2007:i:2:p:319-334
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9779.2007.00309.x
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