Some questions arising from the essay are the following:
(1) What is a public debt illusion?
(2) To what extent does the presence or absence of a public debt illusion affect the temporal location of debt burden?
(3) What is an individual's share in the liability that an issue of interest-bearing public debt represents?
(4) What determines the individual's undervaluation of future tax liabilities in the presence of a public debt illusion?
(5) Why when facing a pure Ricardian choice between the levy of an annual tax in perpetuity and an extraordinary tax, the individual will prefer the debt-annual tax alternative?
(6) Is the fiscal illusion a part of the explanation for the debt accumulation in the U.S. and Europe?
James Buchanan's text The Fiscal Illusion can be found in the following link:
http://www.econlib.org/library/Buchanan/buchCv4c10.html
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