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Steven Hail

Steven Hail is a Lecturer in the School of Economics at the University of Adelaide and Research Scholar at the American Binzagr Institute for Sustainable Prosperity, with a Ph.D. from Flinders University, and a M.Sc from the London School of Economics.
Four Purposes of Federal Taxes

Four Purposes of Federal Taxes

November 5, 2024February 14, 2021 by Steven Hail

Beardsley Ruml wrote in 1946 that taxes for revenue are obsolete. So what ARE they for?

Categories Economic Justice Tags MMT, Taxation

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