Yes, definitely. Although, I had wanted to avoid talking about taxes since it implies a notion of ownership/property rights, which is what I was trying to arrive at through non-normative reasoning. As a convergent strategy for anyone trying to make an economy more productive, rather than following from an ideology.
The ideological tint is not particularly predictive, since you could imagine living in a western democracy that talks a lot about classical liberalism and property rights, but actually takes more of a citizens yield (higher tax rate) than a developing country where the government reserves the right to take whatever they want, but in practice citizens keep more of their own yield.
Yes, definitely. Although, I had wanted to avoid talking about taxes since it implies a notion of ownership/property rights, which is what I was trying to arrive at through non-normative reasoning. As a convergent strategy for anyone trying to make an economy more productive, rather than following from an ideology.
The ideological tint is not particularly predictive, since you could imagine living in a western democracy that talks a lot about classical liberalism and property rights, but actually takes more of a citizens yield (higher tax rate) than a developing country where the government reserves the right to take whatever they want, but in practice citizens keep more of their own yield.