Tax Choice
Tax choice is the concept that taxpayers should be given the option to choose which government organizations they give their taxes to. Having this option would give taxpayers the opportunity to shop for themselves in the public sector. Creating a market for public goods would allow them to practice ethical consumerism. If a taxpayer believed that a government organization was engaging in unethical behavior then he would be able to withhold his own taxes from that government organization and redirect his taxes to more ethical government organizations. For example, pacifists would have the opportunity to boycott the military by giving their taxes to the Environmental Protection Agency.
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Famous quotes containing the words tax and/or choice:
“I have no doubt that it was a principle they fought for, as much as our ancestors, and not to avoid a three-penny tax on their tea; and the results of this battle will be as important and memorable to those whom it concerns as those of the battle of Bunker Hill, at least.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Come and take choice of all my library,
And so beguile thy sorrow.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)