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Wilkinson vs. Zwolinski on Voluntary Tax Contributions

By Tom W. Bell and Glen Whitman

Matt Zwolinski offers an old chestnut libertarian argument: that rich people like Warren Buffett, who advocate greater tax rates on people like themselves, should voluntarily give more money to the government. The fact that they don?t ? as when Buffett donates $37 billion to the Gates Foundation instead of the government ? indicates that they think their money is best spent elsewhere.Will Wilkinson thinks this is a bad argument, because there?s obviously a collective action problem. It?s perf read more

Full post as published by Agoraphilia on April 22, 2012 (boomark / email).