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Taxing the Poor : Doing Damage to the Truly Disadvantaged / Katherine S. Newman, Rourke O'Brien.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Newman, Katherine S., Author.
- O'Brien, Rourke, Author.
- Series:
- Wildavsky Forum Series
- Wildavsky Forum Series ; 7
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poor--Taxation--Southern States.
- Poor--Taxation--United States.
- Poverty--Southern States.
- Poverty--United States.
- Poor.
- Poverty.
- Local Subjects:
- Poor--Taxation--Southern States.
- Poor--Taxation--United States.
- Poverty--Southern States.
- Poverty--United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (263 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2011]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter One. The Evolution of Southern Tax Structures
- Chapter Two. Barriers to Change: Inertia, Supermajorities, and Constitutional Amendments
- Chapter Three. The Geography of Poverty
- Chapter Four. Tax Traps and Regional Poverty Regimes
- Chapter Five. The Bottom Line
- Conclusion: Are We Our Brothers' Keepers?
- Appendix I. How Many Lags of x?
- Appendix II. Tables
- Notes
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9786613278005
- 9781283278003
- 1283278006
- 9780520948938
- 0520948939
- OCLC:
- 703138053
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