Politics, Taxation, and the Rule of Law - The Power to Tax in Constitutional Perspective (Hardcover, 2002 ed.)

The essays in this book treat the relationships among politics, taxation, and the rule of law. A central tenet of democratic ideology is that taxation is something that we choose to do to ourselves, rather than being something that is imposed on us by some ruler. The basic ideology of the American constitutional founding is that government is not the source of our rights of person and property. To the contrary, government is something we establish with our prior rights of person and property to preserve and protect those rights. While it is possible to articulate some intellectual notions about good government and appropriate taxation, it does not follow from the mere fact of this articulation that actual taxation works as articulated. Taxation may be a necessary means of preserving and protecting rights of person and property, but it might also operate in various ways to undermine, abridge, and erode those rights. The central tenet of democratic ideology, a tenet that is reflected thoroughly in the American constitutional founding, is that it is people's prior right to their property that limits the reach of government. This ideology rejects without a second thought any notion that government defines the limits of people's right to property. Yet democratic practice may well contradict and subvert democratic ideology, though the relationship between practice and ideology is not so simple as one being dominant over the other.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 2002
First published:	2002
Editors:	Donald P. Racheter • Richard E. Wagner
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	272
Edition:	2002 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-1-4020-7154-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Central government > Central government policies Books > Business & Economics > Finance & accounting > Finance > Public finance > Taxation Books > Money & Finance > Public finance > Taxation
LSN:	1-4020-7154-X
Barcode:	9781402071546

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