Deficits, debt, and the new politics of tax policy
Machine generated contents note: 1. A brief history of federal taxation; 2. The stable era - World War II to the 1960s; 3. Destabilizing tax policy - Vietnam and the 1970s; 4. The Reagan strategy - balancing low; 5. The Clinton strategy - balancing high; 6. Bush, Obama, and fiscal deadlock; 7. Recon...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Cambridge u.a.
Cambridge University Press
2012
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| Zusammenfassung: | Machine generated contents note: 1. A brief history of federal taxation; 2. The stable era - World War II to the 1960s; 3. Destabilizing tax policy - Vietnam and the 1970s; 4. The Reagan strategy - balancing low; 5. The Clinton strategy - balancing high; 6. Bush, Obama, and fiscal deadlock; 7. Reconnecting taxes and budgets. Comprehensive: examines the historical development of the federal tax system; explains the relative importance of income taxes, payroll taxes, and other taxes in the modern era; and discusses the fairness, economic efficiency, and revenue-raising characteristics of federal tax policy - Policy-focused: analyzes federal tax policy in its budget policy context; emphasizes how decisionmaking on taxes is affected by spending policy (defense and domestic) and by fiscal policy (deficits and debt); focuses on the politics of tax policy as reflected in Democratic and Republican party differences - Timely: appraises the adequacy of the current federal tax system in terms of future national security and entitlement commitments and the enormous deficit and problems the federal government now faces; contends that neither party is being truthful about the higher revenue levels that will be needed to fund government without excessive deficits or debt; argues that the tax system is indeed 'broken' a. This book provides a comprehensive historical account of federal tax policy that emphasizes the relationship between taxes and other components of the budget. |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | XVII, 282 S. 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 1107017270 1-107-01727-0 1107641403 1-107-64140-3 9781107017276 978-1-107-01727-6 9781107641402 978-1-107-64140-2 |