BJL b.d. schreef op 31 juli 2011 00:24:
Robert J. Shiller makes a sound economic proposal to reduce unemployment: by increasing taxes over time by the same amount, dollar for dollar, as we increase spending on public goods (“Taxing and Spending, in Balance,” Economic View, July 24).
Presumably, however, much of that new tax revenue would have to come from the rich and from corporations. Yet these groups have historically resisted all such tax moves, beginning in the time of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Mr. Shiller wrote that “Even those hurt by a tax increase may accept the sacrifice if they know it improves the chances that unemployed friends or relatives will find jobs.”
But the rich are a class apart: their relatives and their friends are also rich, and they (and others) say the unemployed are to blame for their own situation, attributing it to personal failure or lack of initiative.