Harvey S. Rosen cytaty

Harvey S. Rosen - amerykański ekonomista, przewodniczący Zespołu Doradców Ekonomicznych w roku 2005, profesor Uniwersytetu Princeton. Jego badania dotyczą głównie finansów publicznych[potrzebny przypis]. Wikipedia  

✵ 29. Marzec 1949
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Harvey S. Rosen: Cytaty po angielsku

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

Źródło: Public Finance - International Edition - Sixth Edition, Chapter 20, Public Finance in a Federal System, p. 501
Kontekst: 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?

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

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

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

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

“In this country, the number of individuals on the government payroll certainly underestimates the importance of government.”

Źródło: Public Finance - International Edition - Sixth Edition, Chapter 1, Introduction, p. 10

“Dioxin is the outcome of the operations of markets. Does this mean that having dioxin in the environment is efficient?”

Źródło: Public Finance - International Edition - Sixth Edition, Chapter 5, Externalities, p. 79

“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?”

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

“During the 1980's, the top statutory marginal income tax rate in the United States fell from 70 percent to 28 percent.”

Źródło: Public Finance - International Edition - Sixth Edition, Chapter 16, Personal Taxation and Behavior, p. 373

“Government is essentially a big computer that elicits from citizens their preferences and uses this information to produce social decisions.”

Źródło: Public Finance - International Edition - Sixth Edition, Chapter 6, Political Economy, p. 117

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

Źródło: 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.”

Źródło: 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.”

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

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

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

“Some argue that an income tax is unfair because it taxes capital income twice: once when the original income is earned, and again when the investment produces a return.”

Źródło: Public Finance - International Edition - Sixth Edition, Chapter 19, Taxes on Consumption and Wealth, p. 453