Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Compromise, corruption, and confrontation : tax reform in the 1870s
  • Progress, bit by bit : school and insane asylum spending, 1880 to 1900
  • From charter-mongering to catching corporate freeloaders : corporation taxes, 1880-1909
  • The second era of internal improvements : transportation spending, 1890 to 1929
  • Consent, control, and centralization : school and hospital spending, 1900 to 1929
  • Giants of history : income and gasoline taxation, 1907 to 1929
  • The test of democracy : controlling spending in the corporate state, 1907 to 1929.