{"id":2285,"date":"2021-01-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wptest\/2023\/09\/06\/shaking-the-third-rail-reforming-taxation\/"},"modified":"2021-01-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T00:00:00","slug":"shaking-the-third-rail-reforming-taxation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/2021\/01\/12\/shaking-the-third-rail-reforming-taxation-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaking the Third Rail: Reforming Taxation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For my project I&#8217;m going to be exploring the concept of taxation with reference to the philosophies of John Rawls and Robert Nozick. <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; I&#8217;ll analyse Rawls and Nozick\u2019s conceptions of justice and how these apply within a state. <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; I&#8217;ll apply Rawl\u2019s principles of justice to the current tax system to argue that reform is necessary. <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Further I will attempt to dismantle Nozick\u2019s conception of justice and taxation to show it does not go far enough.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; I\u2019ll consider the specific reforms to income and inheritance tax that can be made to move the UK closer to a Rawlsian just state. <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The current taxation system in the UK will be central to my argument, but reference will be made to the tax system post WW2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jasmine Green, 2021, Stage 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8792,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[311,22,128],"tags":[191,61,340],"class_list":["post-2285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-311","category-abstracts","category-stage-2-abstracts","tag-nozick","tag-rawls","tag-taxation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8792"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}