Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Better Insurance Against Inequality: Robert Shiller joins the Piketty School

This is a New York Times piece by Nobel Prize winner and former K-College student Robert Shiller. It's called "Better Insurance Against Inequality." In it, he talks about how to fix our tax system to address income inequality.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/13/business/better-insurance-against-inequality.html?_r=0

He says, "Taxes should be indexed to income inequality so that they automatically become more progressive — meaning that the marginal tax rate for the highest-income people will rise — if income inequality becomes much worse"

What do you think? Do you think this is a good idea?

No comments:

Post a Comment