...Leif Wenar Liam Murphy and Thomas Nagel, The Myth of Ownership: Taxes and Justice. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. ix, 228. Cornell University 2005 BOOK REVIEWS English-speaking readers interested in the debate about the Kantian basis...

... Nacional Autónoma de México The Philosophical Review, Vol. 114, No. 2 (April 2005) Liam Murphy and Thomas Nagel, The Myth of Ownership: Taxes and Justice. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. ix, 228. Tax: fundamental to justice, yet slighted by philosophers. Speech...

..., there really is no justification for the state to regulate family units differently when they contain a married couple, such as by granting tax relief, immigration preference, or next-of-kin rights only to the latter. Instead, Chambers suggests, there could be substantive default rules that aim to both protect...

... that a property-owning democracy might use to realize fair equality of opportunity and the difference principle. Rawls maintains that certain inher- itance, income, or consumption taxes may be used, but that a head tax (requir- 618 BOOK...

... and their managers to take over more of the public sphere than they have already taken over. A healthy democracy is one in which citizens decide what services will be publicly provided, and how much they will tax themselves to provide those services, not one in which citizens are passive consumers of corporate...

... that a property-owning democracy might use to realize fair equality of opportunity and the difference principle. Rawls maintains that certain inher- itance, income, or consumption taxes may be used, but that a head tax (requir- 618 ...

... conditions. First, you knowingly participate in the state’s operations (53)—for example, by obeying the law, paying taxes, voting if eligible, and doing any national service required of you. Second, your participation is genuine : you continue to participate even though the costs of nonparticipation...

... limiting the power of the state as regards the disposition of private property within the operations of the market econ- omy, Kant actually attributes to the state the authority to tax and administer the economy as supreme proprietor of the land, as well as explicitly advocating the establishment...

... this makes catastrophe a side issue. Indeed, one place where Heath departs from orthodoxy among economists is in arguing that risks of catastrophe should not even be represented within standard MCBA and the associated carbon tax. Instead, it should be dealt with separately, through investing in solar...

... requires—tends to have perverse results. The results are perverse in the ordinary sense, that of giving rise to baroque and unwanted side effects (think of the tax code, to take a bureaucratic example); but they are also perverse in a technical and Kantian sense, that of undercutting the connection...

... Jones with her taxes. There is no precise content such that Smith should lose his belief in it as a result of his changing practical interests. The same conclusions hold for allegedly interest-relative beliefs. Fundamentally speaking, belief is a relation to probabilistic contents. In the case...

... of a necessary condition for doing otherwise. Rather, this type of case features a necessary condition for doing otherwise the absence of which at any specific time will not be a sufficient condition for the agent performing the action he or she does. In Pereboom’s “Tax Evasion,” the necessary condition...

... of their own citizens. Such “global governance” institutions (84) could also play a key role in the creation and administration of a tax-financed “global justice fund” (136) aimed at enabling every human to have the opportunity to lead a decent life. In Brock’s view, measurable and substantial...

... of their own citizens. Such “global governance” institutions (84) could also play a key role in the creation and administration of a tax-financed “global justice fund” (136) aimed at enabling every human to have the opportunity to lead a decent life. In Brock’s view, measurable and substantial...

... of their own citizens. Such “global governance” institutions (84) could also play a key role in the creation and administration of a tax-financed “global justice fund” (136) aimed at enabling every human to have the opportunity to lead a decent life. In Brock’s view, measurable and substantial...

... of their own citizens. Such “global governance” institutions (84) could also play a key role in the creation and administration of a tax-financed “global justice fund” (136) aimed at enabling every human to have the opportunity to lead a decent life. In Brock’s view, measurable and substantial...

... of their own citizens. Such “global governance” institutions (84) could also play a key role in the creation and administration of a tax-financed “global justice fund” (136) aimed at enabling every human to have the opportunity to lead a decent life. In Brock’s view, measurable and substantial...

... of their own citizens. Such “global governance” institutions (84) could also play a key role in the creation and administration of a tax-financed “global justice fund” (136) aimed at enabling every human to have the opportunity to lead a decent life. In Brock’s view, measurable and substantial...

... of their own citizens. Such “global governance” institutions (84) could also play a key role in the creation and administration of a tax-financed “global justice fund” (136) aimed at enabling every human to have the opportunity to lead a decent life. In Brock’s view, measurable and substantial...

... of their own citizens. Such “global governance” institutions (84) could also play a key role in the creation and administration of a tax-financed “global justice fund” (136) aimed at enabling every human to have the opportunity to lead a decent life. In Brock’s view, measurable and substantial...