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  title info:
    title: Tax and spend
    sub title: the welfare state, tax politics, and the limits of American liberalism
  name:
    name part: Michelmore, Molly C.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: pau
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 243 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Taxes dominate contemporary American politics. Yet while many rail against big government, few Americans are prepared to give up the benefits they receive from the state. In Tax and Spend, historian Molly C. Michelmore examines an unexpected source of this contradiction and shows why many Americans have come to hate government but continue to demand the security it provides. Tracing the development of taxing and spending policy over the course of the twentieth century, Michelmore uncovers the origins of today's antitax and antigovernment politics in choices made by liberal state builders in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. By focusing on two key instruments of twentieth-century economic and social policy, Aid to Families with Dependent Children and the federal income tax, Tax and Spend explains the antitax logic that has guided liberal policy makers since the earliest days of Franklin Roosevelt's presidency. Grounded in careful archival research, this book reveals that the liberal social compact forged during the New Deal, World War II, and the postwar years included not only generous social benefits for the middle class--including Social Security, Medicare, and a host of expensive but hidden state subsidies--but also a commitment to preserve low taxes for the majority of American taxpayers... -- Book Description.
  table of contents: Defending the welfare and taxing state -- Market failure -- Things fall apart -- Fed up with taxes -- Game over -- Epilogue: stalemate.
  note: Molly Michelmore.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [161]-228) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Taxation
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Welfare state
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Taxation
    topic: Political aspects
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Welfare state
    topic: Political aspects
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Economic conditions
    temporal: 20th century
  classification: HJ2381 .M46 2012
  classification: 336.200973
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Politics and culture in modern America
  identifier: 9780812243888 (acid-free paper)
  identifier: 0812243889 (acid-free paper)
  identifier: 2011043925
  record info:
    record content source: PU/DLC
    record creation date: 111021
    record change date: 20150922104114.0
    record identifier: in00002769014
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng