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“The mere ability to postpone taxes may not seem all that important, but its consequences are enormous.”

Harvey S. Rosen

Source: Public Finance - International Edition - Sixth Edition, Chapter 15, The Personal Income Tax, p. 342

“"Welfare" in the United States is a patchwork of more than 80 programs that provide benefits primarily to low-income individuals. These programs are means tested - only individuals whose financial resources fall below a certain level can receive benefits.”

Harvey S. Rosen

Source: Public Finance - International Edition - Sixth Edition, Chapter 8, Expenditure Programs for the Poor, p. 156

“A social welfare function is simply a statement of how society's well-being relates to the well- being of its members.”

Harvey S. Rosen

Source: Public Finance - International Edition - Sixth Edition, Chapter 3, Tools of Normative Analysis, p. 42

“From a theoretical point of view, lifetime income would be ideal, but the practical problems in estimating it are enormous.”

Harvey S. Rosen

Source: Public Finance - International Edition - Sixth Edition, Chapter 6, Political Economy, p. 140

“Plato argued that in a good society the ratio of the richest to the poorest person's income should be at the most four to one.”

Harvey S. Rosen

Source: Public Finance - International Edition - Sixth Edition, Chapter 7, Income Redistribution Conceptual Issues, p. 147

“Government grows because low-income individuals use the political system to redistribute income toward themselves.”

Harvey S. Rosen

Source: Public Finance - International Edition - Sixth Edition, Chapter 6, Political Economy, p. 128

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“In an experiment in Illinois, members of a randomly selected group of unemployed individuals were offered a bonus of $500 if they found a job within 11 weeks and kept that job for four months. On average, people who were offered the bonus received UI for one week less than the control group, and the program saved more on UI benefits than it spent on bonuses.”

Harvey S. Rosen

Source: Public Finance - International Edition - Sixth Edition, Chapter 9, Social Insurance I: Social Security and Unemployment Insurance, p. 197

“If it makes sense to transfer income from rich to poor people within a generation, why shouldn't we transfer income from rich to poor generations?”

Harvey S. Rosen

Source: Public Finance - International Edition - Sixth Edition, Chapter 18, Deficit Finance, p. 435

“Peoples views on how the government should conduct its financial operations are heavily influenced by their political philosophies.”

Harvey S. Rosen

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Public Finance - International Edition - Sixth Edition

“It must be emphasized that free ridership is not a fact; it is an implication of the hypothesis that people maximize a utility function that depends only on their own consumption of goods.”

Harvey S. Rosen

Source: Public Finance - International Edition - Sixth Edition, Chapter 4, Public Goods, p. 64

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“If the goal is to help the poor, why not give them the money directly?”

Harvey S. Rosen

Source: Public Finance - International Edition - Sixth Edition, Chapter 20, Public Finance in a Federal System, p. 501
Context: Why should the central government be in the business of giving unconditional grants to states and localities? The usual response is that such grants can equalize the income distribution. It is not clear that this argument stands up under scrutiny. Even if a goal of public policy is to help poor people, it does not follow that the best way to do so is to help poor communities. After all, the chances that a community with a low average income will probably have some relatively rich members and vice versa. If the goal is to help the poor, why not give them the money directly?

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“It may be worthwhile to spend a few million dollars to determine the efficacy of program that would involve spending billions of dollars.”

Harvey S. Rosen

Source: Public Finance - International Edition - Sixth Edition, Chapter 2, Tools of Positive Analysis, p. 24-25