Are Taxes Fair?
Mohit Mookim

18 April 2017

今天是美国的纳税日!美国人对税收的态度相当吸引人。两股强烈的文化思潮共同形成了我们对税收的看法。

首先，我们不相信政府——几十年来，政治学家一直在大声疾呼，抱怨人们对政府日益增长的不满。其次，我们有根深蒂固的自由意志主义情绪:我们不希望政府侵犯我们的主权或我们的银行账户，我们认为人们应该自力更生，所以我们不应该付钱来支持他们。除了许多美国人经济状况不佳这一事实之外，美国人讨厌税收也就不足为奇了。从政治和哲学的角度来看，我特别好奇如何改变人们对政府以税收为代理人的态度。

Voxrecently ran an experiment on what their readers think of taxes after being differentially primed—emphasizing different parts of the tax code. The Brookings Institution's Vanessa Williamson and Curtlyn Kramer write the following shortpostabout their findings. We can ask whether we think taxes are fair, but also, how well do we even know our thoughts about taxes? Are our beliefs on this rather significant topic so easily shaped by our environment and priming?

Here's the full link to the Brookings post:

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2017/03/29/are-your-taxes-fair/

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