Voting on Taxes: Is It More Intuitive To Only Tax the Rich?

• In Event: Attitudes Toward Redistribution and Contributions to Public Goods

Brief Overview

We present a new online game to examine why poor voters oppose high taxes. We find that poor participants voted rationally for high taxes 20 percentage points more when they were tax exempt compared to when they paid taxes and received a refund.

Authors

• Benjamin Carter, Stony Brook University

• Peter DeScioli, Stony Brook University