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The Taxman Charmeth

This just in: you like to pay taxes.  You just don't like to admit it.

It seems 19 Oregonian co-eds got excited about giving up some of their research fees in the name of taxation.  And why is that scientifically interesting?  Because their excitement was measured in a super-sciency way.

Bill Harbaugh at the University of Oregon in Eugene, US, and colleagues gave 19 female university students $100, and told them some of this money would have to go towards taxes.
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As the participants viewed the tax scenarios, their brains were scanned using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Surprisingly, whenever the students read the taxation scenarios, scientists saw a spike in activity within two of the brain's reward centres – the nucleus accumbens and caudate nucleus.

Yes, well, to borrow from another Professor, something involving that many big words could easily destabilize fiscal policy as we know it.

Oregon's taxpayers must be doubly enraptured that they got to pay for that study.

(HT: Hot Air)

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The Taxman Charmeth

This just in: you like to pay taxes.  You just don't like to admit it.

It seems 19 Oregonian co-eds got excited about giving up some of their research fees in the name of taxation.  And why is that scientifically interesting?  Because their excitement was measured in a super-sciency way.

Bill Harbaugh at the University of Oregon in Eugene, US, and colleagues gave 19 female university students $100, and told them some of this money would have to go towards taxes.
...
As the participants viewed the tax scenarios, their brains were scanned using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Surprisingly, whenever the students read the taxation scenarios, scientists saw a spike in activity within two of the brain's reward centres – the nucleus accumbens and caudate nucleus.

Yes, well, to borrow from another Professor, something involving that many big words could easily destabilize fiscal policy as we know it.

Oregon's taxpayers must be doubly enraptured that they got to pay for that study.

(HT: Hot Air)