[lbo-talk] figure this quote out

shag carpet bomb shag at cleandraws.com
Sat Feb 18 04:24:06 PST 2012


At 12:50 AM 2/18/2012, nathan tankus wrote:
>"even with taxes at an equal percentage of incomes, the rich
>contribute far less to public expenditures than the poor, whereas they benefit
>much more from them. For whom, if not for the vain rich, are funds expended
>on armaments and the like?"
>
>Guess who said this. The answer may surprise you, it upset me.
>
>--
>-Nathan Tankus

not being an econgeek, don't know why Pareto upsets you. In the heterodox econ world is he like Weber to other social scientists?



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