State Tax Policy
Author : David Brunori
Publisher : The Urban Insitute
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 46,57 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780877667261
Author : David Brunori
Publisher : The Urban Insitute
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 46,57 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780877667261
Author : Jerome R. Hellerstein
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,59 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Taxation
ISBN : 9780791336496
Author : Sven Steinmo
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,46 MB
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300067217
Examining the structure, politics and historic development of taxation in several countries, this book compares three quite different political democracies. It provides an account of the ways these democracies have financed their welfare programs despite w
Author : David Brunori
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,68 MB
Release : 2008
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David Brunori the U.S. Supreme Court was correct to rule that Kentucky can give its citizens an income tax break on their earnings from its bonds.
Author : Ajay K. Mehrotra
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 36,14 MB
Release : 2013-09-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107043921
Making the Modern American Fiscal State chronicles the rise of the US system of direct and progressive taxation.
Author : Molly C. Michelmore
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 33,23 MB
Release : 2011-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0812206746
Taxes dominate contemporary American politics. Yet while many rail against big government, few Americans are prepared to give up the benefits they receive from the state. In Tax and Spend, historian Molly C. Michelmore examines an unexpected source of this contradiction and shows why many Americans have come to hate government but continue to demand the security it provides. Tracing the development of taxing and spending policy over the course of the twentieth century, Michelmore uncovers the origins of today's antitax and antigovernment politics in choices made by liberal state builders in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. By focusing on two key instruments of twentieth-century economic and social policy, Aid to Families with Dependent Children and the federal income tax, Tax and Spend explains the antitax logic that has guided liberal policy makers since the earliest days of Franklin Roosevelt's presidency. Grounded in careful archival research, this book reveals that the liberal social compact forged during the New Deal, World War II, and the postwar years included not only generous social benefits for the middle class—including Social Security, Medicare, and a host of expensive but hidden state subsidies—but also a commitment to preserve low taxes for the majority of American taxpayers. In a surprising twist on conventional political history, Michelmore's analysis links postwar liberalism directly to the rise of the Republican right in the last decades of the twentieth century. Liberals' decision to reconcile public demand for low taxes and generous social benefits by relying on hidden sources of revenues and invisible kinds of public subsidy, combined with their persistent defense of taxpayer rights and suspicion of "tax eaters" on the welfare rolls, not only fueled but helped create the contours of antistate politics at the core of the Reagan Revolution.
Author : David Brunori
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,14 MB
Release : 2002
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The author writes about the need to increase personal income taxes to deal with state budget troubles.
Author : Junko Kato
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 24,13 MB
Release : 2003-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1139440667
Government size has attracted much scholarly attention. Political economists have considered large public expenditures a product of leftist rule and an expression of a stronger representation of labour interest. Although the size of the government has become the most important policy difference between the left and right in post-war politics, the formation of the government's funding base is also important. Junko Kato finds that the differentiation of tax revenue structure is path dependent upon the shift to regressive taxation. Since the 1980s, the institutionalisation of effective revenue raising by regressive taxes during periods of high growth has ensured resistance to welfare state backlash during budget deficits and consolidated the diversification of state funding capacity among industrial democracies. This book challenges the conventional wisdom that progressive taxation goes hand-in-hand with large public expenditures in mature welfare states and qualifies the partisan centred explanation that dominates the welfare state literature.
Author : Deborah Brautigam
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 47,73 MB
Release : 2008-01-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1139469258
There is a widespread concern that, in some parts of the world, governments are unable to exercise effective authority. When governments fail, more sinister forces thrive: warlords, arms smugglers, narcotics enterprises, kidnap gangs, terrorist networks, armed militias. Why do governments fail? This book explores an old idea that has returned to prominence: that authority, effectiveness, accountability and responsiveness is closely related to the ways in which governments are financed. It matters that governments tax their citizens rather than live from oil revenues and foreign aid, and it matters how they tax them. Taxation stimulates demands for representation, and an effective revenue authority is the central pillar of state capacity. Using case studies from Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America, this book presents and evaluates these arguments, updates theories derived from European history in the light of conditions in contemporary poorer countries, and draws conclusions for policy-makers.
Author : David Brunori
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,56 MB
Release : 2005
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The author looks at the implications of campaign contributions for tax policy.