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Rich People's Movements - Grassroots Campaigns to Untax the One Percent (Paperback)
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Rich People's Movements - Grassroots Campaigns to Untax the One Percent (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Postwar American Political Development
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On tax day, April 15, 2010, hundreds of thousands of Americans took
to the streets with signs demanding lower taxes on the richest one
percent. But why? Rich people have plenty of political influence.
Why would they need to publicly demonstrate for lower taxes-and why
would anyone who wasn't rich join the protest on their behalf?
Isaac William Martin shows that such protests long predate the Tea
Party of our own time. Ever since the Sixteenth Amendment
introduced a Federal income tax in 1913, rich Americans have
protested new public policies that they thought would threaten
their wealth. But while historians have taught us much about the
conservative social movements that reshaped the Republican Party in
the late 20th century, the story of protest movements explicitly
designed to benefit the wealthy is still little known. Rich
People's Movements is the first book to tell that story, tracking a
series of protest movements that arose to challenge an expanding
welfare state and progressive taxation. Drawing from a mix of
anti-progressive ideas, the leaders of these movements organized
scattered local constituencies into effective campaigns in the
1920s, 1950s, 1980s, and our own era. Martin shows how protesters
on behalf of the rich appropriated the tactics used by the
Left-from the Populists and Progressives of the early twentieth
century to the feminists and anti-war activists of the 1950s and
1960s. He explores why the wealthy sometimes cut secret back-room
deals and at other times protest in the public square. He also
explains why people who are not rich have so often rallied to their
cause.
For anyone wanting to understand the anti-tax activists of today,
including notable defenders of wealth inequality like the Koch
brothers, the historical account in Rich People's Movements is an
essential guide.
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