Taxing the Poor: Doing Damage to the Truly Disadvantaged (Wildavsky Forum Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.52 (783 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0520269675 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 264 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-03-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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A guide to tax policy and disparity in the United States A nice, broad introduction to how tax systems differ across the United States and their implications for inequality. Newman and O'Brien offer a nice, concise overview of various research in public finance, from historian Robin Einhorn, eminent economists like Emmanuel Saez and Thomas Piketty, human capital scholars like James Heckman, to those working in the fields of fiscal sociology. Taxing the Poor pulls together a breadth of current literature to trace how slavery institutions of the South underdeveloped the region's fiscal capacity, in turn leading to a tax system that shifted tax burden to the pol. Essential reading B. Lindquist One of the best books I've read all year. I came across it by accident, via a footnote in another book [Better Off Without 'Em]. The subject intrigued me, the history of taxation in the South. I was expecting a dry and academic style but was determined to work through it. Instead I found a gripping account supported by fascinating statistics, clearly presented.It deals with issues of great immediacy and importance in American governance. As I write, various Republican state governments are contemplating, and will probably enact, the type of taxation laws which this books examines historically. The type . Why the Poor Get Poorer Mal Warwick Students of poverty in America have searched for its roots in many areas, including racism, culture, genetics, personal responsibility, and social policy. Taxes, by contrast, have received little attention. In Taxing the Poor, Katherine S. Newman and Rourke L. O’Brien respond to this oversight with an illuminating survey of how tax policy in the South has contributed in major ways to the poverty endemic in the region on both sides of the color line.Compared to the rest of the country, the states of the old Confederacy depend to a great extent on sales taxes as a source of revenue. Similarly, the S
--R.S. This is an important book--for lots of reasons."--Daniel T. --Daniel T. Lichter, Cornell University"American Jrnl Of Sociology" (04/15/2013)"Recommended. Rycroft"Choice" (09/02/2011)" . Lichter, Cornell University"American Jrnl Of Sociology" (04/15/2013)"Recommended."--R.S. This is an important book for lots of reasons. "Recommended."--"Choice""Impressive straightforward, compelling, and well-documented. Rycroft"Choice" (09/02/2011)Impressive straightforward, compelling, and well-documented
They show how, decades before California’s passage of Proposition 13, many southern states implemented legislation that makes it almost impossible to raise property or corporate taxes, a pattern now growing in the western states. Newman and Rourke L. Taxing the Poor demonstrates how sales taxes intended to replace the missing revenuetaxes that at first glance appear fairactually punish the poor and exacerbate the very conditions that drove them into poverty in the first place.. O’Brien argue that these policies contribute in unrecognized ways to poverty-related problems like obesity, early mortality, the high school dropout rates, teen pregnancy, and crime. Katherine S. This book looks at the way we tax the poor in the United States, particularly in the American South, where poor families are often subject to income taxes, and where regressive sales taxes apply even to food for home consumption