‘I don’t think there is any moral basis for taking money away from people’: using discursive psychology to explore the complexity of talk about tax

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dc.contributor.authorCarr, Philippa
dc.contributor.authorGoodman, Simon
dc.contributor.authorJowett, Adam
dc.date.acceptance2018-05-08
dc.date.accessioned2019-09-30T15:38:42Z
dc.date.available2019-09-30T15:38:42Z
dc.date.issued2018-08-16
dc.descriptionThe file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final version can be found by following the DOI link.en
dc.description.abstractThe increasing recognition of the negative impact of income inequality has highlighted the importance of taxation which can function as a redistributive mechanism. Previous critical social psychological research found that talk about restricting the welfare state, that is funded through tax, is formed of ideology that supports the maintenance of income inequality. Therefore, this research explores how speakers use talk about tax to justify income inequality during a UK BBC radio discussion, ‘Moral Maze: The moral purpose of tax’ which involved public figures discussing the role of tax. This programme was analysed from a critical discursive psychological perspective. It was found that two contrasting constructions of tax were presented: tax as a collective responsibility or tax as an individual burden, whereby speakers drew on social justice and individualistic ideology respectively. Arguments for high tax rates are problematic due to the acceptability of inequality in a meritocracy. By presenting wealthy individuals as more deserving than the less affluent, arguments for higher tax come to be challenged.en
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dc.identifier.citationCarr, P., Goodman, S. and Jowett, A. (2019) 'I don't think there is any moral basis for taking money away from people': using discursive psychology to explore the complexity of talk about tax. Critical Discourse Studies, 16 (1), pp. 84-95en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2018.1511440
dc.identifier.urihttps://dora.dmu.ac.uk/handle/2086/18529
dc.language.isoenen
dc.peerreviewedYesen
dc.publisherTaylor and Francisen
dc.subjectTaxationen
dc.subjectincome inequalityen
dc.subjectdiscursive psychologyen
dc.subjectjust worlden
dc.subjectmeritocracyen
dc.subjectideologyen
dc.title‘I don’t think there is any moral basis for taking money away from people’: using discursive psychology to explore the complexity of talk about taxen
dc.typeArticleen

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