Taxing America
by Brown, Karen B. Fellows, Mary Louise
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 actual proposal betrayed such claims to fairness by overtaxing workers and undertaxing financial capital. In the face of recent proposals for dramatic and far-reaching tax reform, Taxing America takes a …
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- Full title :Taxing America / edited by Karen B. Brown and Mary Louise Fellows.
Summary
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 actual proposal betrayed such claims to fairness by overtaxing workers and undertaxing financial capital. In the face of recent proposals for dramatic and far-reaching tax reform, Taxing America takes a critical look at the way the federal government collects its revenue and exposes the bias at the h.
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- Publication Date:©1996.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):New York University Press
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©1996.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (ix, 363 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780814725016, 0814725015
- oclc:ocn698020206
- LC Classification:HJ2381
- Dewey Decimal:336.200973
Table of Contents
Fiction in tax / Lily Kahng -- The marriage bonus : penalty in black and white / Dorothy A. Brown -- Taxation and human capital / Jennifer J.S. Brooks -- How government tax and housing policies have racially segregated America -- Acknowledging workers in definitions of consumption and investment : the case of health care -- Shifting from an income tax to a consumption tax : effects on expenditures for education / Charlotte Crane -- Consumption in business : investment at home : environmental cleanup costs versus disability access costs / Denise D.J. Roy -- Economic development : taxes, sovereignty, and the global economy -- Transforming the unilateralist into the internationalist : new tax treaty policy toward developing countries / Karen B. Brown -- The future of deferral : taxing the income of U.S. multinationals / Labrenda Garrett-Nelson -- The American dream savings account : is it a dream or a nightmare? / Regina T. Jefferson -- Simplification for low-income texpayers : some options / Jonathan Barry Forman -- The uncertain fate of the earned income tax credit program / George K. Yin -- Welfare reform, the child care dilemma, and the tax code : family values, the wage labor ma…
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