Creedy, John (contributor) - 2007
Empirical studies of the relationship between inequality and redistributive taxation
have found mixed results; see, for example … Public Economics,20,pp.333-346.
[9] Diamond, P.A. (1998) Optimal income taxation: an example with a
U-shaped pattern of … ‘basic income’)
and a proportional income tax (or ‘flat tax’).
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The combined effect is to
generate an increasing average tax …