POLSC401: Ethics and Public Policy

4.1: Taxes and Tax Reform

• Internal Revenue Service: "Comparing Regressive, Progressive, and Proportional Taxes" URL

  Read this article.

• Cornell University Law School: "Income Tax Law: An Overview" URL

  Read this article.

• James M. Bickley's "Tax Reform: An Overview of Proposals in the 112th Congress" URL

  Read this report.

• Harvard University: Michael Sandel's "Free to Choose/Who Owns Me?" Page

  Watch this lecture.

• Principles of Economics: "Chapter 15, Section 2 and Chapter 19, Section 1" URL

  • Chapter 15, Section 2
    
  • Chapter 19, Section 1
    

  Read these sections. Attempt the "Try It" problems at the end of each reading, and then check your solutions with the Answer Keys at the end of each page.