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Welfare Taxation: Opting Out to Shrink the State
Author(s) -
Clark Colin
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
economic affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1468-0270
pISSN - 0265-0665
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0270.1987.tb01846.x
Subject(s) - obstacle , opting out , welfare state , welfare , state (computer science) , economics , labour economics , public economics , business , market economy , political science , law , keynesian economics , algorithm , politics , computer science
Spending on welfare has resisted reform and remains the biggest obstacle to cutting taxes in Britain. Colin Clark, now teaching at the University of Queensland, suggests the radical measure of allowing taxpayers to keep their taxes and choose between competing private suppliers of state health care, education, pensions, and other ‘services’.