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Myths and Paradoxes of Justice in Taxation

In: Luigi Einaudi: selected Economic Essays, Volume 2

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  • Riccardo Faucci

    (University of Pisa)

  • Roberto Marchionatti

    (University of Turin)

Abstract

For a long time I was uncertain as to the most appropriate title for this essay. It would not have been completely out of place to entitle it: ‘In defence of the state against the doctrinaires’, since it is common knowledge worldwide that the confraternity of the doctrinaires is becoming the enemy number one of public finance. Public administrators — ministers of finance or directors of the great revenue services — who are in charge of the finances of contemporary states find themselves having to strenuously defend the systems currently in force against the reforming mania of the doctrinaires, and even though these systems do actually function and yield a revenue of billions, the doctrinaires seek to ensure justice; what is more, they are not content with simple rough-hewn justice — which is the only concretely possible version — but instead they desire perfect justice, which is complicated and destroys ten in order to collect one.

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  • Riccardo Faucci & Roberto Marchionatti, 2014. "Myths and Paradoxes of Justice in Taxation," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Riccardo Faucci & Roberto Marchionatti (ed.), Luigi Einaudi: selected Economic Essays, Volume 2, chapter 2, pages 67-147, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-34500-4_6
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137345004_6
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    1. Silvestri, Paolo, 2018. "Welfare State and Taxation. The Critical Point of Freedom Between Gift and Corruption," Department of Economics and Statistics Cognetti de Martiis. Working Papers 201803, University of Turin.

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