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The power to destroy : how the antitax movement hijacked America /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Graetz, Michael J. (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2024]
Subjects:
Taxation > Moral and ethical aspects > United States.
Taxation > Political aspects > United States.
Political planning > United States > Economic policy.
Impôt > Aspect moral > États-Unis.
Impôt > Aspect politique > États-Unis.
Politique publique > États-Unis > Politique économique.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • chapter 1. Reset from the Right
  • Part I: Takeoff (1978-1981)
  • Chapter 2. A Political Earthquake
  • Chapter 3. Christian Evangelicals Join the Antitax Movement
  • Chapter 4. Prophets of the Supply-Side Gospel
  • Chapter 5. Reaganomics
  • Part II: Turbulence (1982-1994)
  • Chapter 6. Resistance
  • Chapter 7. An Uneasy Political Marriage
  • Chapter 8. The Triumvirate
  • Chapter 9: A President Undone
  • Chapter 10: Showdown and Shutdown
  • Part III: Resurgence (1997-2023)
  • Chapter 11: Moving the Goalposts
  • Chapter 12: The Apple Sometimes Falls Far from the Tree
  • Chapter 13. The Nation Splits Apart
  • Chapter 14. Tax Cuts Are Trump
  • Chapter 15. Tax the Rich?
  • Chapter 16. The End of American Exceptionalism?
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index