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The Permanent Tax Revolt - How the Property Tax Transformed American Politics (Hardcover, New)
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The Permanent Tax Revolt - How the Property Tax Transformed American Politics (Hardcover, New)
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Tax cuts are such a pervasive feature of the American political
landscape that the political establishment rarely questions them.
Since 2001, Congress has abolished the tax on inherited wealth and
passed a major income tax cut every year, including two of the
three largest income tax cuts in American history despite a long
drawn-out war and massive budget deficits. "The Permanent Tax
Revolt" traces the origins of this anti-tax campaign to the 1970s,
in particular, to the influence of grassroots tax rebellions as
homeowners across the United States rallied to protest their local
property taxes.
Isaac William Martin advances the provocative new argument that the
property tax revolt was not a conservative backlash against big
government, but instead a defensive movement for government
protection from the market. The tax privilege that the tax rebels
were defending was in fact one of the largest government social
programs in the postwar era.
While the movement to defend homeowners' tax breaks drew much of
its inspiration--and many of its early leaders--from the
progressive movement for welfare rights, politicians on both sides
of the aisle quickly learned that supporting big tax cuts was good
politics. In time, American political institutions and the
strategic choices made by the protesters ultimately channeled the
movement toward the kind of tax relief favored by the political
right, with dramatic consequences for American politics today.
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