Tax Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Choice=== {{undue weight|section|date=November 2012}} {{Main|Tax choice}} Tax choice is the theory that taxpayers should have more control with how their individual taxes are allocated. If taxpayers could choose which government organizations received their taxes, [[opportunity cost]] decisions would integrate their [[dispersed knowledge|partial knowledge]].<ref>{{cite journal |title=Tax morale and conditional cooperation |url=http://www.bsfrey.ch/articles/453_07.pdf |doi=10.1016/j.jce.2006.10.006 |access-date=3 January 2013 |volume=35 |journal=Journal of Comparative Economics |pages=136–59 |year=2007 |last1=Frey |first1=Bruno S. |last2=Torgler |first2=Benno |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130120090643/http://www.bsfrey.ch/articles/453_07.pdf |archive-date=20 January 2013 }}</ref> For example, a taxpayer who allocated more of his taxes on [[public education]] would have less to allocate on [[public healthcare]]. Supporters argue that allowing taxpayers to [[demonstrated preference|demonstrate their preferences]] would help ensure that the [[government success|government succeeds]] at efficiently producing the [[public goods]] that taxpayers truly value.<ref>{{cite web |title=Do Earmarks Increase Giving to Government? |url=http://cbees.utdallas.edu/papers/gtg2.pdf |publisher=Cbees.utdallas.edu |access-date=3 January 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130303125214/http://cbees.utdallas.edu/papers/gtg2.pdf |archive-date=3 March 2013 }}</ref> This would end [[real estate speculation]], [[business cycle]]s, [[unemployment]] and distribute wealth much more evenly. [[Joseph Stiglitz]]'s [[Henry George Theorem]] predicts its sufficiency because—as George also noted—public spending raises land value. Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page