The NIT as income tax reform
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During the last decade the idea of a negative income tax (NIT) as the centerpiece program in antipoverty policy has faded politically to near extinction. Even if political support were favorable, I doubt that the NIT is currently a practical antipoverty proposal. Having made this admission, however, I hasten to say that I did not come to bury the negative income tax, but rather to suggest that the idea of negative taxes as part of the (positive) individual income tax system still lives. If this sounds contradictory, let me explain.
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تاریخ انتشار 2007