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  title info:
    title: Taxing the poor
    sub title: doing damage to the truly disadvantaged
  name:
    name part: Newman, Katherine S.
    name part: 1953-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: O'Brien, Rourke L.
    name part: 1984-
  name:
    name part: Alexander Street (Firm)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    place:
      place term: Berkeley, Calif
    publisher: University of California Press
    date issued: ©2011
    date issued: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xlviii, 212 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: This book looks at the way we tax the poor in the United States, particularly in the American South, where poor families are often subject to income taxes, and where regressive sales taxes apply even to food for home consumption. Katherine S. Newman and Rourke L. O'Brien argue that these policies contribute in unrecognized ways to poverty-related problems like obesity, early mortality, the high school dropout rates, teen pregnancy, and crime. They show how, decades before California's passage of Proposition 13, many southern states implemented legislation that makes it almost impossible to raise property or corporate taxes, a pattern now growing in the western states. Taxing the Poor demonstrates how sales taxes intended to replace the missing revenue -- taxes that at first glance appear fair -- actually punish the poor and exacerbate the very conditions that drove them into poverty in the first place.
  table of contents: The evolution of regional tax structures -- Barriers to change -- The geography of poverty -- Tax traps and how they spread beyond the South -- The bottom line.
  note: Katherine S. Newman and Rourke L. O'Brien.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-206) and index.
  note: In English.
  subject:
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    geographic code: n-usu--
  subject:
    topic: Poor
    topic: Taxation
    geographic: Southern States
  subject:
    topic: Poor
    topic: Taxation
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Poverty
    geographic: Southern States
  subject:
    topic: Poverty
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Pauvres
    topic: Impôts
    geographic: États-Unis (Sud)
  subject:
    topic: Pauvres
    topic: Impôts
    geographic: États-Unis
  subject:
    topic: Pauvreté
    geographic: États-Unis (Sud)
  subject:
    topic: Pauvreté
    geographic: États-Unis
  subject:
    topic: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
    topic: International
    topic: Taxation
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE
    topic: Anthropology
    topic: Cultural
  subject:
    topic: Poor
    topic: Taxation
  subject:
    topic: Poverty
  subject:
    geographic: Southern States
  subject:
    geographic: United States
  classification: HJ2387 .N49 2011eb
  classification: 336.20086/9420973
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    record content source: N$T
    record creation date: 110315
    record change date: 20250331202435.9
    record identifier: in00005638757
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng