Question

A critic of John Rawls would say that:

  

1. the welfare of the least well-off individual should be maximized.

2. progressive taxes tend to reinforce the coercive power of the state to redistribute wealth.

3. taxes should be made more progressive.   

4. the welfare of the least well-off individual should be minimized.

5. the market is always efficient and fair.

Answer 1

5. the market is always efficient and fair.

John Rawls advocated for equal basic rights, equality of opportunity, and promoting the interests of the least advantaged members of society. So, government intervention is required for this distributive fairness or justice of the society. But, in case of market economy, it is well known that the market outcome is efficient allocatively and productively, Thius, it goes against the principle that market brings fair outcome.