Taxing the poor : doing damage to the truly disadvantaged /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Newman, Katherine S., 1953-
Other Authors: O'Brien, Rourke L., 1984-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©2011.
Series:Aaron Wildavsky forum for public policy ; 7.
Subjects:
Poor > Taxation > Southern States.
Poor > Taxation > United States.
Poverty > Southern States.
Poverty > United States.
Pauvres > Impôts > États-Unis (Sud)
Pauvres > Impôts > États-Unis.
Pauvreté > États-Unis (Sud)
Pauvreté > États-Unis.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > International > Taxation.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Poor > Taxation.
Poverty.
Southern States.
United States.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The evolution of regional tax structures
  • Barriers to change
  • The geography of poverty
  • Tax traps and how they spread beyond the South
  • The bottom line.

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