- by taking resources from market participants, they impose a direct burden - by changing behaviour, they generate a deadweight loss — the excess burden The government’s tax policy should strive to minimize allocative inefficiency for a given amount of tax revenues.
Because public goods are underprovided by private markets
due to the free rider problem, government spending tends to be concentrated on providing public goods. - national defense is 2/3 of federal government spending - education is about 20% of state and local government spending - policy and fire services are about 15% of the state and local government spending
Government activities reallocate resources between the private and public sectors - a different mix of goods and services from what would otherwise exist
What is the appropriate mixture of public and private
"Social Double-Account-System with Three-Column-Funding with free prices and money administration by the citizens themselves" Adapted to US Economy, strong market-based and joining social needs (All your claims are fulfilled): A potential Health Care Act by Donald Trump, President of the United States (To be urgently forwarded to) New Deal Health Care (to vanish old-fashioned "Obama Care")