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Taxing the Poor : Doing Damage to the Truly Disadvantaged.
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. Katherine S. Newman and Rourke L. O'Brien argue that these polici...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2011.
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| Colección: | Aaron Wildavsky forum for public policy.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. Katherine S. Newman and Rourke L. 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. They show how, decades before California's passage of Proposition 13, many southern states implemented legislation that makes it almost impossible to rai. |
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| Notas: | Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. The Evolution of Southern Tax Structures; 2. Barriers to Change: Inertia, Supermajorities, and Constitutional Amendments; 3. The Geography of Poverty; 4. Tax Traps and Regional Poverty Regimes; 5. The Bottom Line; Conclusion: Are We Our Brothers' Keepers?; Appendix I. How Many Lags of x?; Appendix II. Tables; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (263 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780520948938 0520948939 1283278006 9781283278003 9786613278005 6613278009 |