Sexism and taxation

[magnificentme]

The current tax system is sexist.

According to this paper by Alberto Alesina and Andrea Ichino women should be taxed at a lower rate than men because the women’s labor supply is more elastic than men’s labor supply. For those of you who aren’t econo-nerds that means when wages increase by x amount women will supply more extra labor than men will,

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[cheerfulstoic]

I support this initiative.