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That would be nice, but then you're not doing an experiment.
by bhousel 16y ago
That would be nice, but then you're not doing an experiment.
- adrianN 16y agoWhy not? You can still observe how people behave differently if they have higher or lower taxes.
- bhousel 16y agoI guess that's true. But what I meant to say was that in order to arrange for the results to net a zero difference from what the government would collect normally, you're not really randomly assigning tax rates or running a lottery, you're just fixing people's rates at something other than what they would normally be. Something about manipulating the conditions of the experiment (even a stupid thought experiment) to force a desired outcome doesn't sit right with me.
- ars 16y agoHe means the higher and lower taxes would cancel themself out. Not that the people in it earn nothing.