Tax and Spend : : The Welfare State, Tax Politics, and the Limits of American Liberalism / / Molly C. Michelmore.
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...
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