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Wildavsky forum series ; 7 |
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Aaron Wildavsky forum for public policy ;
7.
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Note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-206) and index. |
Contents |
The evolution of Southern tax structures -- Barriers to change: inertia, supermajorities, and constitutional amendments -- The geography of poverty -- Tax traps and regional poverty regimes -- The bottom line -- Are we our brothers' keepers? -- How many lags of x? / by Scott M. Lynch. |
Summary |
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. The authors 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. 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. The book demonstrates how sales taxes intended to replace the missing revenue, taxes that at first glance appear fair, actually punish the poor and exacerbate the very conditions that drove them into poverty in the first place. |
Subject |
Poor -- Taxation -- Southern States.
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Poor -- Taxation -- United States.
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Poverty -- Southern States.
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Poverty -- United States.
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Income tax -- United States.
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Sales tax -- United States.
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Alt Author |
O'Brien, Rourke L., 1984-
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Standard # |
9780520269668 cloth alkaline paper |
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0520269667 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780520269675 paperback alkaline paper |
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0520269675 paperback alkaline paper |
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