ZZ Taxing the poor to pay the poor# Economics - 经济
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Apr 1st 2004
From The Economist print edition
Europe's big welfare states are surprisingly efficient—and surprisingly
inequitable
ECONOMISTS, who prize efficiency above equity, have long given warning of the
dangers of redistribution. England's poor laws, which paid a pittance to the
destitute out of taxes, earned David Ricardo's condemnation in the early 19th
century. “The principle of gravitation is not more certain than the tendency
of such laws to change wealth and power into misery and weak
From The Economist print edition
Europe's big welfare states are surprisingly efficient—and surprisingly
inequitable
ECONOMISTS, who prize efficiency above equity, have long given warning of the
dangers of redistribution. England's poor laws, which paid a pittance to the
destitute out of taxes, earned David Ricardo's condemnation in the early 19th
century. “The principle of gravitation is not more certain than the tendency
of such laws to change wealth and power into misery and weak
