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Changing the tax structure

Allison Christians (McGill): Introduction to Tax Policy Theory. Ivan Ozai (McGill): Tax Competition and the Ethics of Burden Sharing. Wolfgang Schoen (Max Planck): Taxation and Democracy. Richard M. Bird (Toronto): Are Global Taxes Feasible? Across the globe, taxes on corporations plummet. Edward J. McCaffery (USC): The Death of the Income Tax (or, the Rise of America’s Universal Wage Tax). Henry Ordower (SLU): Taxing Others in the Age of Trump: Foreigners (and the Politically Weak) as Tax Subject. Post-redistribution liberalism: Changing the tax structure, even radically, won’t really change much — we need to look to pre-tax inequities to transform society.