Reviews

-This provocative look at standard economic theory takes issue with common economic arguments for excise taxation--raising the most revenue with the lowest welfare loss, and the elimination of social costs of consumption... This work would make an excellent addition to a library collection and would be a useful reference for anyone who teaches public finance or public choice, especially for the historical perspective it offers.- --B. J. Peterson, Choice -Taxing Choice exposes the conventional rationale for discriminatory, regressive excise taxes as a faded remnant of the ideology of technocratic central planning, myopic log-rolling, and pork-barrel politics... Provides a powerful and unique challenge to archaic academic dogma, and does so without being stuffy or complex. This lively book offers a surprisingly thorough and readable lesson in the politics and economics of taxation.- --Alan Reynolds, Kemp Tax Reform Commission

"This provocative look at standard economic theory takes issue with common economic arguments for excise taxation--raising the most revenue with the lowest welfare loss, and the elimination of social costs of consumption... This work would make an excellent addition to a library collection and would be a useful reference for anyone who teaches public finance or public choice, especially for the historical perspective it offers." --B. J. Peterson, Choice "Taxing Choice exposes the conventional rationale for discriminatory, regressive excise taxes as a faded remnant of the ideology of technocratic central planning, myopic log-rolling, and pork-barrel politics... Provides a powerful and unique challenge to archaic academic dogma, and does so without being stuffy or complex. This lively book offers a surprisingly thorough and readable lesson in the politics and economics of taxation." --Alan Reynolds, Kemp Tax Reform Commission

"This provocative look at standard economic theory takes issue with common economic arguments for excise taxation--raising the most revenue with the lowest welfare loss, and the elimination of social costs of consumption... This work would make an excellent addition to a library collection and would be a useful reference for anyone who teaches public finance or public choice, especially for the historical perspective it offers." --B. J. Peterson, Choice "Taxing Choice exposes the conventional rationale for discriminatory, regressive excise taxes as a faded remnant of the ideology of technocratic central planning, myopic log-rolling, and pork-barrel politics... Provides a powerful and unique challenge to archaic academic dogma, and does so without being stuffy or complex. This lively book offers a surprisingly thorough and readable lesson in the politics and economics of taxation." --Alan Reynolds, "Kemp Tax Reform Commission"