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Author Michelmore, Molly

Title Tax and spend : the welfare state, tax politics, and the limits of American liberalism / Molly Michelmore
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (243 pages) : illustrations
Series Politics and culture in modern America
Politics and culture in modern America.
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Tax Matters -- Chapter 1. Defending the Welfare and Taxing State -- Chapter 2. Market Failure -- Chapter 3. Things Fall Apart -- Chapter 4. Fed Up with Taxes -- Chapter 5. Game Over -- Epilogue: Stalemate -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Summary Analyzing economic policy from the New Deal through the Reagan Revolution, Tax and Spend takes a new look at the so-called tax-and-spend liberals of the past. This important study examines why many Americans have come to hate the government but continue to demand the security it provides
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-228) and index
Notes In English
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Subject Taxation -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Welfare state -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Taxation -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Welfare state -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century.
Economic history
Politics and government
Taxation
Taxation -- Political aspects
Welfare state
Welfare state -- Political aspects
SUBJECT United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140455
United States -- Economic conditions -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001001975
Subject United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0812206746
9780812206746