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Taxing the rich : a history of fiscal fairness in the United States and Europe

Scheve, Kenneth F., [author], Stasavage, David, author, Russell Sage Foundation

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\"Taxing the Rich draws on unparalleled evidence from twenty countries over the last two centuries to provide the broadest and most in-depth history of progressive taxation available. Scheve and Stasavage explore the intellectual and political debates surrounding the taxation of the wealthy while also providing the most detailed examination to date of when taxes have been levied against the rich and when they haven't. Fairness in debates about taxing the rich has depended on different views of what it means to treat people as equals and whether taxing the rich advances or undermines this norm. Scheve and Stasavage argue that governments don't tax the rich just because inequality is high or rising--they do it when people believe that such taxes compensate for the state unfairly privileging the wealthy. Progressive taxation saw its heyday in the twentieth century, when compensatory arguments for taxing the rich focused on unequal sacrifice in mass warfare. Today, as technology gives rise to wars of more limited mobilization, such arguments are no longer persuasive. Taxing the Rich shows how the future of tax reform will depend on whether political and economic conditions allow for new compensatory arguments to be made.\"--Publisher's Web site.

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Subject: Rich people Taxation United States History. / Rich people Taxation Europe History. / Income tax United States History. / Income tax Europe History. / Wealth United States History. / Wealth Europe History. / Imposte sul reddito Europa e Stati Uniti d'America Sec. 19.-20. / Income tax. / Rich people Taxation. / Wealth. / Steuerprogression. / Steuersystem. / Steuerpolitik. / Erbschaftsteuer. / Verteilungsgerechtigkeit. / Einkommensteuer. / Europe. / United States. / USA. / Europa.
• ISBN: 0691165459, 9780691165455

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
HJ4653.R6 S34 2016	1	BOOK	BUSINESS