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Progressive income taxation cuts relative income differentials, thus reducing income inequality. It is interesting to know that this implication can be stated as an equivalence, if one slightly modifies the assumptions made in my REMARK on p. 519 of General Inequalities 3.
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Eichhorn, W. (1984). Remark on Progressive Income Taxation: Inequalities in the Theory of Economic Inequality. In: Walter, W. (eds) General Inequalities 4. International Series of Numerical Mathematics / Internationale Schriftenreihe zur Numerischen Mathematik / Série Internationale D’Analyse Numérique, vol 71. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-6259-2_34
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