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Taxing the Poor

Doing Damage to the Truly Disadvantaged

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2011-02-27
Mått140 x 210 x 18 mm
Vikt318 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieWildavsky Forum Series
Antal sidor264
FörlagUniversity of California Press
ISBN9780520269675

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List of Illustrations List of Tables Preface Acknowledgments 1. The Evolution of Southern Tax Structures 2. Barriers to Change: Inertia, Supermajorities, and Constitutional Amendments 3. The Geography of Poverty 4. Tax Traps and Regional Poverty Regimes 5. The Bottom Line Conclusion: Are We Our Brothers' Keepers? Appendix I. How Many Lags of X? by Scott M. Lynch Appendix II. Tables Notes Index

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