Title:
Tax and Spend The Welfare State, Tax Politics, and the Limits of American Liberalism
Author:
Michelmore, Molly.
ISBN:
9780812206746
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Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2012. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description:
1 online resource (248 p.)
Series:
Politics and culture in modern America
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Summary
Summary
Analyzing economic policy from the New Deal through the Reagan Revolution, Tax and Spend takes a new look at the so-called tax-and-spend liberals of the past. This important study examines why many Americans have come to hate the government but continue to demand the security it provides.
Table of Contents
| Introduction: Tax Matters |
| 1 Defending the Welfare and Taxing State |
| 2 Market Failure |
| 3 Things Fall Apart |
| 4 Fed Up with Taxes |
| 5 Game Over |
| Epilogue: Stalemate |
| Notes |
| Index |
| Acknowledgments |