Dear all,

Sorry for the previous message, which was
totally wrong. What I would like to say is as follows:

As I understand the four principles of taxation in WN,
it is rather difficult to believe that Smith "supported mildly 
progressive taxation."
Eric, you are kindly requested to indicate you URL where
I can take a look at your PhD thesis.

Cheers,

Yukihiro Ikeda


Eric Schliesser ????????:
> Adam Smith supported mildly progressive taxation. Rothbard is quite critical of Smith over this. 
> I wrote about this in my PhD thesis (easily available online), where I show that Smith can be construed as even more progressive than Rothbard thought.
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> Eric Schliesser
> Bof Research Professor
> Philosophy and moral Sciences,
> Ghent university 
> Ghent, 9000, Belgium
> Tel: (31)-(0)6-15005958
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> On 3 jun 2010, at 17:49, CARLOS RODRIGUEZ BRAUN <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Among the old fallacies that have enjoyed a renaissance with the current economic crisis is the supposedly impeccable idea of taxing "the rich". I think that classical economists favoured in general indirect against direct taxes, and did not support a permanent income tax, and even less a progressive one. Can J.S.Mill stand as an exception? Was there an economist who supported progressive taxation in the classical period, or perhaps before?
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> Carlos Rodríguez Braun
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