The Hidden Welfare State : Tax Expenditures and Social Policy in the United States

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Despite costing hundreds of billions of dollars and subsidizing everything from homeownership and child care to health insurance, tax expenditures (commonly known as tax loopholes) have received little attention from those who study American government. This oversight has contributed to an incomplet...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Howard, Christopher
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2001.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Taxation.
Tax expenditures.
Social policy.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > International > Taxation.
Depenses fiscales > États-Unis.
Impôt > États-Unis.
Tax expenditures > United States.
Taxation > United States.
United States.
États-Unis > Politique sociale.
United States > Social policy.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Despite costing hundreds of billions of dollars and subsidizing everything from homeownership and child care to health insurance, tax expenditures (commonly known as tax loopholes) have received little attention from those who study American government. This oversight has contributed to an incomplete and misleading portrait of U.S. social policy. Here Christopher Howard analyzes the "hidden" welfare state created by such programs as tax deductions for home mortgage interest and employer-provided retirement pensions, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and the Targeted Jobs Tax Credit. Basing his wor.
Notas:Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (272 pages).
ISBN:9781400822416

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