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The triumph of injustice : how the rich dodge taxes and how to make them pay / Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman.
Lippincott Library HJ4653.R6 S2347 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Saez, Emmanuel, author.
- Zucman, Gabriel, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rich people--Taxation--United States.
- Rich people.
- Tax incidence--United States.
- Tax incidence.
- Rich people--Taxation.
- United States.
- Income distribution--United States.
- Income distribution.
- Taxation--United States.
- Taxation.
- Income tax--United States.
- Income tax.
- Equality--United States.
- Equality.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2019]
- Summary:
- "A searing examination of a key driver of American inequality-our tax system. Even as they became fabulously wealthy, the rich have seen their taxes collapse to levels last seen in the 1920s. Meanwhile, working-class Americans have been asked to pay more. The Triumph of Injustice is a forensic investigation into this dramatic transformation. Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, economists who revolutionized the study of inequality, demonstrate how the super-rich pay a lower tax rate than everybody else. In crystalline prose, they dissect the deliberate choices and the sins of indecision that have fueled this trend: the gradual exemption of capital owners; the surge of a new tax-avoidance industry; and, most critically, tax competition between nations. It is not too late to change course. Instead of competition, we could choose cooperation, finding ways to create a tax regime that serves universal, democratic ends. The Triumph of Injustice offers a visionary and practical reinvention of taxes for that globalized world"-- Provided by the publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: reinventing fiscal democracy
- Income and taxes in America
- From Boston to Richmond
- How injustice triumphs
- Welcome to Bermuland
- Spiral
- How to stop the spiral
- Taxing the rich
- Beyond laffer
- A world of possiblity
- Conclusion: tax justice now.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-229).
- ISBN:
- 9781324002727
- 1324002727
- OCLC:
- 1121628961
- Publisher Number:
- 99982299458
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