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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package American History |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Politics and Culture in Modern America
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 8 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: Tax Matters
- Chapter 1. Defending the Welfare and Taxing State
- Chapter 2. Market Failure
- Chapter 3. Things Fall Apart
- Chapter 4. Fed Up with Taxes
- Chapter 5. Game Over
- Epilogue: Stalemate
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments