EFD / JFL Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi / Journal of Faculty of Letters Cilt/Volume 27 Say›/Number 2 (Aral›k /December 2010) Global Social Justice and Taxation (original) (raw)

2016

Abstract

The question of whether there are global duties of distributive justice find an affirmative answer from those political philosophers who may be called “global egalitarians. ” One striking feature of global egalitarians is that they tend to refuse the moral significance of boundaries and lay stress on the arbitrariness of the distribution of natural resources on the earth. The idea of arbitrary distribution of natural resources also constitutes the basis for Thomas Pogge’s proposal of a global resource tax for redistribution of wealth and resources. He maintains that each nation should pay a proportional tax on the natural resources such as oil, coal, etc. it extracts from the earth—he also holds that the same tax might cover reuseable resources like agricultural land, water and so on, that is, basic needs of the global poor can be met by funds obtained through global resources tax for him. But Pogge’s proposal faces serious difficulties as it is biased against natural resource-wise ...

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