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Taxing the Poor - Doing Damage to the Truly Disadvantaged (Paperback, New)
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Taxing the Poor - Doing Damage to the Truly Disadvantaged (Paperback, New)
Series: Wildavsky Forum Series, 7
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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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