| Description |
ix, 363 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Critical America |
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Critical America.
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| Contents |
Pt. I. Expanding the Tax Discourse: New Ways to Think About Wealth, Income, Race, and Gender. 1. Fiction in Tax / Lily Kahng. 2. The Marriage Bonus/Penalty in Black and White / Dorothy A. Brown. 3. Taxation and Human Capital / Jennifer J. S. Brooks. 4. How Government Tax and Housing Policies Have Racially Segregated America / John A. Powell -- Pt. II. Challenging Tax Traditions: The Bias of the Investment/Consumption Dichotomy. 5. Acknowledging Workers in Definitions of Consumption and Investment: The Case of Health Care / Gwen Thayer Handelman. 6. Shifting from an Income Tax to a Consumption Tax: Effects on Expenditures for Education / Charlotte Crane. 7. Consumption in Business/Investment at Home: Environmental Cleanup Costs versus Disability Access Costs / Denise D. J. Roy -- Pt. III. Rethinking Development: Old Practices, Old Rules, New World. 8. Economic Development: Taxes, Sovereignty, and the Global Economy / Beverly I. Moran |
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9. Transforming the Unilateralist into the Internationalist: New Tax Treaty Policy toward Developing Countries / Karen B. Brown. 10. The Future of Deferral: Taxing the Income of U.S. Multinationals / Labrenda Garrett-Nelson -- Pt. IV. Implementing Subsidies: Tax Relief for Savers and for Workers. 11. The American Dream Savings Account: Is It a Dream or a Nightmare? / Regina T. Jefferson. 12. Simplification for Low-Income Taxpayers: Some Options / Jonathan Barry Forman. 13. The Uncertain Fate of the Earned Income Tax Credit Program / George K. Yin. 14. Welfare Reform, the Child Care Dilemma, and the Tax Code: Family Values, the Wage Labor Market, and the Race- and Class-Based Double Standard / Mary L. Heen |
| Notes |
Papers presented at a conference held Nov. 3-5, 1995, at the University of Minnesota |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Income tax -- United States -- Congresses.
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Taxation -- Law and legislation -- United States -- Congresses.
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Taxation -- United States -- Congresses.
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Economic policy -- 1993-2001 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92006370 -- Congresses.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001533
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Brown, Karen B., 1954-
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Fellows, Mary Louise.
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| LC no. |
96025302 |
| ISBN |
0814726488 (clothbound) |
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0814726615 (paperback) |
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