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How America was Tricked on Tax Policy

Author : Bret N. Bogenschneider
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1785274287
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (852 download)

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Download or read book How America was Tricked on Tax Policy written by Bret N. Bogenschneider and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How America was Tricked on Tax Policy explains how regular citizens were “tricked” by the outdated view of economists that much heavier taxation of labor rather than capital is economically justifiable. The truth is that workers pay their taxes while the rich pay very little. Based on reputable sources of information, including publications of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), official statistics data, and the publications in high-ranked journals, the book paves the way for a new policy-making process aimed to achieve more sustainable taxation and to increase the wellbeing of citizens as the main goal of any modern state policy. Dealing with critically important and underexplored topics in tax policy, the book challenges an enshrined dogma that is rarely challenged at the level of policy. In doing so, this book envisions policy changes that could be highly impactful in a new political administration. This book proposes that governments should look for not just corporate income tax rate reduction when announcing their tax reforms but should equally focus on the reduction of the overall tax burden on labor. The negative impact and high social cost of wage taxation is exemplified by the key areas of tax policy that are relevant for every wealthy state, such as taking due care of public health, investing in education and wellbeing of children, and supporting small business for the overall benefit to society. The book compellingly argues how tax policy could be improved by incorporating science and scientific methods.

Failure of U. S. Tax Policy

Author : Sheldon D. Pollack
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271038896
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (388 download)

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Download or read book Failure of U. S. Tax Policy written by Sheldon D. Pollack and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author examines federal tax policy over the past twenty years, through 1994, and shows how an assortment of players, politicians, and lawyers have made for erratic policy and a tangled tax system, and assesses the idea of a flat tax. UP.

If Americans Really Understood The Income Tax

Author : John O Fox
Publisher : Westview Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book If Americans Really Understood The Income Tax written by John O Fox and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 2001-03-25 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critique of federal individual income tax policy, and a proposalfor overhauling the system that will appeal to ordinary citizens, liberalsand conservatives, as well as to experts.

Federal Taxation in America

Author : W. Elliot Brownlee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521565868
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (658 download)

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Download or read book Federal Taxation in America written by W. Elliot Brownlee and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-03-29 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authoritative and readable, this book is the first historical overview of US federal tax systems published since 1967. Its coverage extends from the ratification of the Constitution to the present day. Brownlee describes the five principal stages of federal taxation in relation to the crises that led to their adoption - the formation of the republic, the Civil War, World War I, the Great Depression, and World War II - and discusses the significant modification during the Reagan presidency of the last stage. Brownlee also addresses the proposals made since the fall of 1994 congressional elections under the 'Contract with America' and competing schemes, and he assesses today's conditions for a tax revolution in the light of the national emergencies that have produced revolutions in the past. While focusing on federal policy, Brownlee also attends to the related history of state and local taxation.

The Tax Decade

Author : C. Eugene Steuerle
Publisher : The Urban Insitute
ISBN 13 : 9780877665236
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (652 download)

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Download or read book The Tax Decade written by C. Eugene Steuerle and published by The Urban Insitute. This book was released on 1992 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Description of the tax developments of the 1980s by one of the best informed economic analysts of the American system.

End the IRS Before It Ends Us

Author : Grover Norquist
Publisher : Center Street
ISBN 13 : 9781455585809
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (858 download)

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Download or read book End the IRS Before It Ends Us written by Grover Norquist and published by Center Street. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the recent scandal shows, the IRS is big, bad, and out of control. Grover Norquist analyzes the problems within the agency and presents solutions to rein them in. The driving force behind the American Revolution was our forefathers' refusal to accept unfair taxation. Citizens rose up, won a war against impossible odds, and established the most unique government on the face of the earth, with taxes set at about 2 percent. How much has changed since 1776? The strength of Americans resolve is still unrivaled, and Grover Norquist, founder and president of Americans for Tax Reform, knows that once liberty-loving Americans learn the truth behind the oppressive and prosperity-stifling taxes we face today, they'll rise up again. Urging his fellow citizens to join him, Norquist tells a powerful and urgent story that will convince you we must act now to END THE IRS BEFORE IT ENDS US.

American Tax Resisters

Author : Romain D. Huret
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674369408
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (743 download)

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Download or read book American Tax Resisters written by Romain D. Huret and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The American taxpayer”—angered by government waste and satisfied only with spending cuts—has preoccupied elected officials and political commentators since the Reagan Revolution. But resistance to progressive taxation has older, deeper roots. American Tax Resisters presents the full history of the American anti-tax movement that has defended the pursuit of limited taxes on wealth and battled efforts to secure social justice through income redistribution for the past 150 years. From the Tea Party to the Koch brothers, the major players in today’s anti-tax crusade emerge in Romain Huret’s account as the heirs of a formidable—and far from ephemeral—political movement. Diverse coalitions of Americans have rallied around the flag of tax opposition since the Civil War, their grievances fueled by a determination to defend private life against government intrusion and a steadfast belief in the economic benefits and just rewards of untaxed income. Local tax resisters were actively mobilized by business and corporate interests throughout the early twentieth century, undeterred by such setbacks as the Sixteenth Amendment establishing a federal income tax. Zealously petitioning Congress and chipping at the edges of progressive tax policies, they bequeathed hard-won experience to younger generations of conservatives in their pursuit of laissez-faire capitalism. Capturing the decisive moments in U.S. history when tax resisters convinced a majority of Americans to join their crusade, Romain Huret explains how a once marginal ideology became mainstream, elevating economic success and individual entrepreneurialism over social sacrifice and solidarity.

The Power to Destroy

Author : Michael J. Graetz
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691225559
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book The Power to Destroy written by Michael J. Graetz and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-13 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the antitax fringe went mainstream—and now threatens America’s future The postwar United States enjoyed large, widely distributed economic rewards—and most Americans accepted that taxes were a reasonable price to pay for living in a society of shared prosperity. Then in 1978 California enacted Proposition 13, a property tax cap that Ronald Reagan hailed as a “second American Revolution,” setting off an antitax, antigovernment wave that has transformed American politics and economic policy. In The Power to Destroy, Michael Graetz tells the story of the antitax movement and how it holds America hostage—undermining the nation’s ability to meet basic needs and fix critical problems. In 1819, Chief Justice John Marshall declared that the power to tax entails “the power to destroy.” But The Power to Destroy argues that tax opponents now wield this destructive power. Attacking the IRS, protecting tax loopholes, and pushing tax cuts from Reagan to Donald Trump, the antitax movement is threatening the nation’s social safety net, increasing inequality, ballooning the national debt, and sapping America’s financial strength. The book chronicles how the movement originated as a fringe enterprise promoted by zealous outsiders using false economic claims and thinly veiled racist rhetoric, and how—abetted by conservative media and Grover Norquist’s “taxpayer protection pledge"—it evolved into a mainstream political force. The important story of how the antitax movement came to dominate and distort politics, and how it impedes rational budgeting, equality, and opportunities, The Power to Destroy is essential reading for understanding American life today.

Contemporary U.S. Tax Policy

Author : C. Eugene Steuerle
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary U.S. Tax Policy written by C. Eugene Steuerle and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: C. Eugene Steuerle, one of the country's most influential economists, offers an insider's look at tax policy based on a quarter century of working with officials of all political stripes. Steuerle outlines the principles of taxation and the early postwar period before proceeding to the tax policy battles that began with the Reagan revolution and continue today. Those expecting a simple story of triumph and defeat may be surprised. Rather than moving toward consensus and progress, tax policy history has been messy, repetitive, and often rancorous. Yet evolution-and even revolution-do occur. The second edition has been updated with a look at tax policy during the George W. Bush presidency.

Taxing America

Author : Julian E. Zelizer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521795449
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (954 download)

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Download or read book Taxing America written by Julian E. Zelizer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-11-13 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines Wilbur D. Mills' role in shaping the national tax agenda 1958-74.

The Greedy Hand

Author : Amity Shlaes
Publisher : Random House (NY)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Greedy Hand written by Amity Shlaes and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 1999 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Greedy Hand is an illuminating examination of the culture of tax and a persuasive call for reform, written by one of the nation's leading policy makers, Amity Shlaes of" The Wall Street Journal. The father of the modern American state was an obscure Macy's department store executive named Beardsley Ruml. During World War II, he devised the plan for withholding taxes from your paycheck, thereby laying in place a system that allows the hand of government to reach into your wallet and take what it wants. Today, taxes make up more than a third of our economy, the highest level in history outside war. We live in the nation revolutionary father Thomas Paine foresaw when he wrote of "the Greedy Hand of government thrusting itself into every corner of industry." This book is a cultural examination of the way taxes influence our behavior, how they force us into an arbitrary system that punishes families and individual enterprise. Amity Shlaes unveils the hidden perversities of our lifelong tax experience: how family tax breaks do little to help the family, and can even hurt it. She demonstrates how married women pay a special women's tax rate, higher than anybody else's. She shows how problems that engage and enrage us--Social Security problems, or the things we don't like about schools--are, at heart, tax problems. And she explains why the solutions Washington offers merely accelerate a vicious cycle. Finally, Amity Shlaes shows us a way out of this madness, endorsing a number of common-sense reforms that will give all Americans a fairer and simpler tax system. Written with eloquent compassion for working Americans and their families, The Greedy Hand makesthe best case yet for rethinking our tax code. It is a book no tax-paying citizen can afford to ignore.

Federal Taxation in America

Author : W. Elliot Brownlee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107099765
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Federal Taxation in America written by W. Elliot Brownlee and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-19 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an analysis of the dramatic shifts in American taxation through crises from the American Revolution through to the 'Great Recession'.

The Politics of Bad Ideas

Author : Bryan Jones
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317343034
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Bad Ideas written by Bryan Jones and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-29 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This highly anticipated addition to the "Great Questions in Politics" series offers a provocative argument about the persistence of bad ideas in shaping American economic policy. The result of a collaboration between political scientist Bryan D. Jones and economist Walter Williams, The Politics of Bad Ideas is indispensable reading for any study of American government, public policy, or economic and budgetary analysis. The Politics of Bad Ideas examines why, over the last quarter century, bad economic ideas -- such as cutting taxes without cutting spending -- have become so influential in shaping government policies. Using in-depth research and trenchant political and economic analysis, the book explores why those bad ideas continue to survive despite overwhelming evidence that they in fact cause damage to the federal government's long-term fiscal stability and the American economy.

Taxes in America

Author : Leonard E. Burman
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0199890269
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Taxes in America written by Leonard E. Burman and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2013-01-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taxes in America, by preeminent tax scholars Leonard E. Burman and Joel Slemrod, offers a clear, concise explanation of how our tax system works, how it affects people and businesses, and how it might be improved. Accessibly written, the book describes the confundities of the modern tax system in an easy-to-grasp manner and addresses issues relevant to the average taxpayer.

The Price of Progress

Author : R. Rudy Higgens-Evenson
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801870545
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book The Price of Progress written by R. Rudy Higgens-Evenson and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2002-12-16 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the Civil War and the Great Depression, twin revolutions swept through American business and government. In business, large corporations came to dominate entire sectors and markets. In government, new services and agencies, especially at the city and state levels, sprang up to ameliorate a broad spectrum of social problems. In The Price of Progress, R. Rudy Higgens-Evenson offers a fresh analysis of therelationship between those two revolutions. Using previously unexploited data from the annual reports of state treasurers and comptrollers, he provides a detailed, empirical assessment of the goods and services provided to citizens, as well as the resources extracted from them, by state governments during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.Focusing on New York, Massachusetts, California, and Kansas, but including data on 13 other states, his comparative study suggests that the "corporate state" originated in tax policies designed to finance new and innovative government services. Business and government grew together in a surprising and complex fashion. In the late nineteenth century, services such as mental health care for the needy and free elementary education for all children created new strains on the states' old property tax systems. In order to pay for newly constructed state asylums and schools, states experimented for the first time with corporate taxation as a source of revenue, linking state revenues to the profitability of industries such as railroads and utilities. To control their tax bills, big businessesintensified lobbying efforts in state legislatures, captured important positions in state tax bureaus, and sponsored a variety of government-efficiency reform organizations. The unintended result of corporate taxation—imposed to allow states to fulfill their responsibilities to their citizens—was the creation of increasingly intimate ties between politicians, bureaucrats, corporate leaders, and progressive citizens. By the 1920s, a variety of "corporate states" had proliferated across the nation, each shaped by a particular mix of taxation and public services, each offering a case study in how the business of America, as President Calvin Coolidge put it, became business. -- Tonya K. Flesher

Death by a Thousand Cuts

Author : Michael J. Graetz
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691122939
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Death by a Thousand Cuts written by Michael J. Graetz and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fast-paced book by two Yale professors unravels the following mystery: How is it that the estate tax, which has been on the books continuously since 1916 and is paid by only the wealthiest two percent of Americans, was repealed in 2001 with broad bipartisan support?

Federal Tax Policy

Author : Joseph A. Pechman
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Federal Tax Policy written by Joseph A. Pechman and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fifth edition of Federal Tax Policy, like its predecessors, is intended to explain such issues so that the interested citizen may better understand and contribute to public discussion of tax policy. This edition reflects tax developments between 1983 and 1987 and emphasizes the newer issues: comprehensive income taxation, the effects of taxation on economic incentives, inflation adjustments for income tax purposes, the relative merits of graduated income taxes and expenditure taxes, and changes in the fiscal relations between the federal and the state and local governments.