Do voters tend to underestimate the costs of government spending? Several features of its tax system make Sweden unusually well suited for testing the proposition that voters systematically misperceive the price tag of new government programs.
Fiscal Illusion and Fiscal Obfuscation
Tax Perception in Sweden
By Tino Sanandaji, Björn Wallace
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