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Choking on Growth

In: Welfare and Values

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  • Frank Turner

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Professor Frowen, in the previous chapter, has considered ways in which a government might seek to meet the escalating costs of social welfare. He argues that the affluent are unlikely to subsidize such costs by themselves contributing voluntarily to health care, schooling, and so on, while at the same time fully supporting public provision for the less affluent. Therefore he looks to economic expansion to generate sufficient resources to fund adequate social provision. Economic growth, runs the argument, will (subject to certain conditions such as constant tax rates) increase tax revenue even as it lessens the burden of supporting the unemployed, so freeing resources for more constructive use.

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  • Frank Turner, 1997. "Choking on Growth," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Peter Askonas & Stephen F. Frowen (ed.), Welfare and Values, chapter 13, pages 144-156, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-25547-4_14
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-25547-4_14
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