The Economics of the Tax Revolt
Author : Jan P. Seymour
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 18,21 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Taxation
ISBN :
Author : Jan P. Seymour
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 18,21 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Taxation
ISBN :
Author : David O. Sears
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 15,96 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780674868359
A tax revolt almost as momentous as the Boston Tea Party erupted in California in 1978. Its reverberations are still being felt, yet no one is quite sure what general lessons can be drawn from observing its course. this book is an in-depth study of this most recent and notable taxpayer's rebellion: Howard Jarvis and Proposition 13, the Gann measure of 1979, and Proposition (Jarvis II) of 1980.
Author : Michael Keen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 45,87 MB
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0691199981
An engaging and enlightening account of taxation told through lively, dramatic, and sometimes ludicrous stories drawn from around the world and across the ages Governments have always struggled to tax in ways that are effective and tolerably fair. Sometimes they fail grotesquely, as when, in 1898, the British ignited a rebellion in Sierra Leone by imposing a tax on huts—and, in repressing it, ended up burning the very huts they intended to tax. Sometimes they succeed astonishingly, as when, in eighteenth-century Britain, a cut in the tax on tea massively increased revenue. In this entertaining book, two leading authorities on taxation, Michael Keen and Joel Slemrod, provide a fascinating and informative tour through these and many other episodes in tax history, both preposterous and dramatic—from the plundering described by Herodotus and an Incan tax payable in lice to the (misremembered) Boston Tea Party and the scandals of the Panama Papers. Along the way, readers meet a colorful cast of tax rascals, and even a few tax heroes. While it is hard to fathom the inspiration behind such taxes as one on ships that tended to make them sink, Keen and Slemrod show that yesterday’s tax systems have more in common with ours than we may think. Georgian England’s window tax now seems quaint, but was an ingenious way of judging wealth unobtrusively. And Tsar Peter the Great’s tax on beards aimed to induce the nobility to shave, much like today’s carbon taxes aim to slow global warming. Rebellion, Rascals, and Revenue is a surprising and one-of-a-kind account of how history illuminates the perennial challenges and timeless principles of taxation—and how the past holds clues to solving the tax problems of today.
Author : James Ring Adams
Publisher : San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 10,70 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Author : Robert Kuttner
Publisher : New York : Simon and Schuster
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 15,88 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Author : Chris R. Edwards
Publisher : Cato Institute
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 45,20 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1933995181
Introduction -- Capital explosion -- Tax cut revolution -- Flat tax club -- Mobile brains and mobile wealth -- Taxing businesses in the global economy -- The economics of tax competition -- The battle for freedom and competition -- The moral case for tax competition -- Options for U.S. policy.
Author : Isaac William Martin
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 32,79 MB
Release : 2008-03-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0804763178
Tax cuts are such a pervasive feature of the American political landscape that the political establishment rarely questions them. Since 2001, Congress has abolished the tax on inherited wealth and passed a major income tax cut every year, including two of the three largest income tax cuts in American history despite a long drawn-out war and massive budget deficits. The Permanent Tax Revolt traces the origins of this anti-tax campaign to the 1970s, in particular, to the influence of grassroots tax rebellions as homeowners across the United States rallied to protest their local property taxes. Isaac William Martin advances the provocative new argument that the property tax revolt was not a conservative backlash against big government, but instead a defensive movement for government protection from the market. The tax privilege that the tax rebels were defending was in fact one of the largest government social programs in the postwar era. While the movement to defend homeowners' tax breaks drew much of its inspiration—and many of its early leaders—from the progressive movement for welfare rights, politicians on both sides of the aisle quickly learned that supporting big tax cuts was good politics. In time, American political institutions and the strategic choices made by the protesters ultimately channeled the movement toward the kind of tax relief favored by the political right, with dramatic consequences for American politics today.
Author : Phil Valentine
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 14,77 MB
Release : 2005-03-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1418508462
Ever since the Boston Tea Party, courageous and patriotic citizens have rebelled against the government's overbearing and abusive taxation of its constituents. This book is the powerful rallying cry to all Americans to continue to fight against our ever-increasing taxes. Using as a touchstone the heroic incident in Tennessee, when citizens converged on the state capitol to protest and repeatedly beat back attempts to pass a state tax, Valentine weaves an inspiring story of how patriotic citizens have stood up to taxes in the past, how many intrepid constituents continue to fight, and how Americans should resist and even revolt against taxes on a state and national level. By exploring the crippling effects of taxes on our economy and the lives of each individual citizen and drawing from the stories of other revolts (with exclusive behind-the-scenes details about the Tennessee rebellion), Valentine will anger and incite readers to action, giving them the motivation and know-how to spread the word and activate a powerful new revolution.
Author : Steve Forbes
Publisher : Regnery Publishing
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 39,69 MB
Release : 2005-07-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0895260409
The president of Forbes, Inc. presents his argument for a flat tax, suggesting that the new tax would be fair and efficient, with the new tax form being no bigger than a postcard and without any of the loopholes that currently exist.
Author : Barry N. Siegel
Publisher :
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 12,78 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Tax protests and appeals
ISBN : 9780898030198