Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Seat Belt, Harry Frankfurt, Rationality
26 Feb 2016
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Swift says: taxation need not reduce the freedom of those who are not taxed. Ronald dworkin: taxes restrict my freedom only if i have a right to my money. Cohen: taxes always restrict my freedom because they limit my choices. Redistributive taxation reduces the freedom of the rich but increases the freedom of the poor: redistribution can help people, regardless of its effects on freedom. Taxes can be used to provide public good or to improve prospects for the worst of. Freedom is valuable, but it is not the only value: redistribution can increase the total amount of effective freedom. Taxes reduce the efective freedom of those who are taxed, but can increase the total amount of efective freedom. We need to evaluate the importance or the value of freedoms: market societies make their members unfree by alienating them from their real interests. Karl marx: we should abolish private property and market relationships.
