Taxing America /

Taxing America / / ed. by Karen B. Brown, Mary Louise Fellows.

In the winter of 1996, Steve Forbes--publisher, heir, and presidential candidate--captured the American imagination with his proposal for a flat tax. But while Mr. Forbes claimed that such a tax would level the economic playing field by eliminating countless loopholes and miles of red tape, his actu...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
MitwirkendeR:
Brooks, Jennifer J . S.,
Brown, Dorothy A.,
Brown, Karen B .,
Brown, Karen B.,
Crane, Charlotte,
Fellows, Mary Louise,
Forman, Jonathan Barry,
Garrett-Nelson, Labrenda,
Heen, Mary L.,
Jefferson, Regina T.,
Kahng, Lily,
Moran, Beverly I.,
Powell, John A.,
Roy, Denise D. J .,
Thayer Handelman, Gwen,
Yin, George K.,
HerausgeberIn:
Brown, Karen B.,
Fellows, Mary Louise,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2020]
©1997
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Critical America ; 44
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • INTRODUCTION
  • PART I. EXPANDING THE TAX DISCOURSE: NEW WAYS TO THINK ABOUT WEALTH, INCOME , RACE, AND GENDER
  • 1. Fiction in Tax
  • 2. The Marriage Bonus/Penalty in Black and White
  • 3. Taxation and Human Capital
  • 4. How Government Tax and Housing Policies Have Racially Segregated America
  • PART II. CHALLENGING TAX TRADITIONS: THE BIAS OF THE INVESTMENT/CONSUMPTION DICHOTOMY
  • 5. Acknowledging Workers in Definitions of Consumption and Investment
  • 6. Shifting from an Income Tax to a Consumption Tax
  • 7. Consumption in Business/Investment at Home
  • PART III. RETHINKING DEVELOPMENT: OLD PRACTICES, OLD RULES, NEW WORLD
  • 8. Economic Development
  • 9. Transforming the Unilateralist into the Internationalist
  • 10. The Future of Deferral
  • PART IV. IMPLEMENTING SUBSIDIES: TAX RELIEF FOR SAVERS AND FOR WORKERS
  • 11. The American Dream Savings Account
  • 12. Simplification for Low-Income Taxpayers
  • 13. The Uncertain Fate of the Earned Income Tax Credit Program
  • 14. Welfare Reform, the Child Care Dilemma, and the Tax Code
  • CONTRIBUTORS
  • INDEX

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