PREDISTRIBUTION AGAINST RENT-SEEKING: THE BENEFIT PRINCIPLE’S ALTERNATIVE TO REDISTRIBUTIVE TAXATION

IF 0.3 4区 哲学 Q4 ETHICS Social Philosophy & Policy Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI:10.1017/S0265052523000067
C. Delmotte
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Abstract The distributive justice literature has recently formulated several tax proposals, with limitarians or property-owning democrats proposing new or higher taxes on wealth or capital income intended to decrease the growing wealth gap. This essay joins this debate on inequality and redistributive taxation through the lens of the “benefit principle for public policy.” This principle says that specific rules and institutions are acceptable to the extent that they create benefits for all individuals in society, or at least don’t make anyone worse off. This benefit principle opposes wealth accumulation to the extent that wealth was generated through rent-seeking—that is, income unrelated to economic productivity, which is not embedded in mutually beneficial exchanges. I maintain, however, that ruling out rent-seeking requires not ex post taxation, but primarily a more “predistributive corrective policy,” that is, reconfiguration of market institutions to prevent wealth accumulation through rent-seeking in the first place. The alternative response is, thus, not to tackle inequality as such but to reform the market to promote the occurrence of mutually beneficial exchange.
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反对寻租的预分配:利益原则对再分配税收的替代
分配正义的文献最近制定了几个税收建议,限制主义者或拥有财产的民主党人提议对财富或资本收入征收新的或更高的税,旨在缩小日益扩大的贫富差距。本文通过“公共政策的利益原则”加入了关于不平等和再分配税收的辩论。这一原则说,特定的规则和制度在一定程度上是可以接受的,因为它们为社会上的所有个人创造了利益,或者至少不会使任何人的情况变得更糟。这一利益原则反对财富积累,因为财富是通过寻租产生的,即与经济生产力无关的收入,不包含在互利的交换中。然而,我坚持认为,排除寻租不需要税后,而主要是一种更“预分配纠正政策”,也就是说,首先要重新配置市场制度,以防止通过寻租积累财富。因此,另一种应对办法不是解决不平等问题,而是改革市场,促进互利交换的发生。
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期刊介绍: Social Philosophy and Policy is an interdisciplinary journal with an emphasis on the philosophical underpinnings of enduring social policy debates. The issues are thematic in format, examining a specific area of concern with contributions from scholars in different disciplines, especially philosophy, economics, political science and law. While not primarily a journal of policy prescriptions, some articles in each issue will typically connect theory with practice. The 2006 issues are "Justice and Global Politics" and "Taxation, Economic Prosperity, and Distributive Justice". The 2007 issues will be "Liberalism: Old and New" and "Ancient Greek Political Theory".
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