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Beliefs About the Rich, the Poor and the Taxes They Pay

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. Beliefs about tax burdens are frequently distorted in the direction of the believer's economic self‐interest, according to a study of 300 White women in the Boston Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area, of 50 of their husbands in a matched pairs analysis and of 25 Black women. Socioeconomic status is a consistently stronger predictor of the federal tax burden than is ideology, but neither is effective. The federal income tax component of the total tax burden is consistently overestimated. But there is a general tendency to underestimate the total tax burden of the poor.

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  • John B. Williamson, 1976. "Beliefs About the Rich, the Poor and the Taxes They Pay," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 35(1), pages 9-30, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ajecsc:v:35:y:1976:i:1:p:9-30
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1536-7150.1976.tb01208.x
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