REFERENCES AND QUOTES Philosophy 2021 Get funds (tax) and use them to promote good life within limits - References and quotes THE EMPATHIC CIVILIZATION: THE RACE TO GLOBAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN A WORLD IN CRISIS Compelling story of the past to be able to tax. Massimo dAzeglio. 293 I DOUGHNUT ECONOMICS: SEVEN WAYS TO THINK LIKE A 21ST-CENTURY ECONOMIST Tax relief vs tax justice. 26 Governance must be able to deal with scale and complexity 54 Sign of Fay Lewis. Land-value tax. Henry George, land should be owned by a community. 150 Taxing non-renewables and not work and basic income won’t be enough. We have to share. Biosphere is for all! 161 Universal access to public services, global taxes. Universal access to global commons, earth’s life-giving systems and knowledge. 167 Quotas, tiered pricing and taxes don’t do enough because of problem in setting required level to bring down environmental impacts of the economy. See COLONIALISM IN THE ANTROPOCENE: THE POLITICAL ECOLOGY OF THE MONEY-ENERGY-TECHNOLOGY COMPLEX 15 MYTEN OM MASKINEN: ESSÄER OM MAKT; MODERNITET OCH MILJÖ 63, 64 Instead work with paradigm/mindset and the goal of the system 176 Regenerative finance. 1. shrink, simplify, diversify and deleverage finance e.g global financial transactions tax See Tobin tax. 2. Longterm investment. State investment and private investment for longterm like Triodos. 3. Redesigning currency. Torekes. 193 State role, switch from taxing labor to taxing non-renewables and provide incentives to go from labour productivity to resource productivity coupled with subsidies for renewable energy and regulate to get net-zero and net-positive industries. State/government as taxer, giver of subsidies, regulator, long-term investor and measurer of sustainability 196 State raise taxes for public funds without increase tax rate. 1. Reframe tax, from public spending to public investment which is important for our collective well-being. 2. Close tax loopholes, which could end extreme income poverty twice. 3. Tax wealth – need for strong civic engagement. 226 Tax resource use instead of labour. 229 I PROSPERITY WITHOUT GROWTH Functioning of capitalist economy and taxing 105 even in the rate of savings, will lead to escalating inequality.” Piketty, declining growth and capitalists increasing share of national income. Tax as a solution. See Thinkings in systems on “Success to the successful”, DOUGHNUT ECONOMICS: SEVEN WAYS TO THINK LIKE A 21ST-CENTURY ECONOMIST and https://voxeu.org/article/reducing-inequality-deconcentrating-capital on sharing capital as a solution other than taxing Piketty theory was right under certain circumstances but in other degrowth can improve equality. Low elasticity and serviced based economy where time and skill are valued. 190 “Systemic income inequalities increase anxiety, undermine social capital and expose lower income households to higher morbidity and lower life-satisfaction. In fact, the evidence of negative health and social effects right across unequal populations is mounting. Systemic inequality also drives positional consumption, contributing to a material ‘ratchet’ that drives resource flows through the economy.” Equity and ecological limits gives per capita caps. “The conditions of equity and ecological limits, taken together, suggest a key role for the model known as ‘contraction and convergence’ in which equal per capita allowances are established under an ecological cap that converges towards a sustainable level. This approach has been applied, to some extent, for carbon. Similar caps could be established for the extraction of scarce non-renewable resources, for the emission of wastes (particularly toxic and hazardous wastes), for the drawing down of ‘fossil’ groundwater supplied and for the rate of harvesting of renewable resources.” 214 I CREATIVE CITIZEN, CREATIVE STATE: THE PRINCIPLED AND PRAGMATIC CAS FOR A UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME Land tax "justified on the basis of gains received by a few from the institutions of society and its collective action failures rather than through the individual’s endeavour" 34 I COMMON CAUSE – THE CASE FOR WORKING WITH OUR CULTURAL VALUES Taxburden vs tax justice. Hard to keep conflicting frames in the mind at the same time. 44 I THE SPIRIT LEVEL: WHY MORE EQUAL SOCITIES ALMOST ALWAYS DO BETTER Yearning for balance 3,4 We are not alone in feeling that we want a better society. 4 Can use both strategies of redistribution before and through tax. 238 Political will for fairer societies exists when power is threatened. 239 Equally sharing the burden. Richard Titmuss, ”If cooperation of the masses was thought to be essential [for the war effort], then inequalities had to be reduced and the pyramid of social stratification to be flattened”. 239, 240 the need for of a concept of a better society and a vision 240, 241 Importance of vision. People want more equal societies. Yearning for Balance See THINKING IN SYSTEMS – A PRIMER 241 I ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS – PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATIONS Ecological tax reform. Tax throughput flow 145 Mulitplier effect vs taxes. Taxes are important in achieving optimal scale 298 Ecosystem care about quantities extracted and not prices therefore are quotas better than tax in setting limits. 366, 367 Internalizing externalities through Pigouvian taxes 376 Cannot accurately measure the environmental cost to apply Pigouvian tax at right level. 377 Increasing Pigouvian taxes and Pigouvian subsidies 378 Ecological tax reform impose desirable resource tax and coupling and eliminating a worse tax. 385 Caps on income and wealth. Conspicuous consumption can be seen as a negative externality and could be limited by a progressive consumption tax. Income could be capped using a progressive income tax and it is good if it also limit economic growth because the people and planet needs less of it! 🙂 Wealth can be capped through a progressive wealth tax such as real estate tax and inheritance tax. 392 Much of private wealth grows because of infrastructure and institutions provided by society. 392, 393 Subsaharian Bill Gates. Tax and the Northern European countries 393 Henry George and the reasoning for a land tax. Practically harder to physically redistribute land than taxing. 402 I THINKING IN SYSTEMS – A PRIMER Stop reinforcing the success to the successful loop. Slow the growth through progressive income tax, inheritance, universal high-quality education. 156 Tax and the idea of fairness. 162 DANA (DONELLA) MEADOWS LECTURE: SUSTAINABLE SYSTEMSPopulation Balancing/negative loops, potlatch, equal education, taxes 22.38 To encouragement Next encouragement