The Power to Destroy : How the Antitax Movement Hijacked America / Michael J. Graetz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Graetz, Michael J., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political planning--United States--Economic policy.

Political planning.

Taxation--Political aspects--United States.

Taxation.

Taxation--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 360 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2024]

Summary:

"The postwar United States enjoyed large, widely distributed economic rewards-and most Americans accepted that taxes were a reasonable price to pay for living in a society of shared prosperity. Then in 1978 California enacted Proposition 13, a property tax cap that Ronald Reagan hailed as a "second American Revolution," setting off an antitax, antigovernment wave that has transformed American politics and economic policy. In The Power to Destroy, Michael Graetz tells the story of the antitax movement and how it holds America hostage-undermining the nation's ability to meet basic needs and fix critical problems"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Reset from the Right

Part I: Takeoff (1978-1981)

Chapter 2. A Political Earthquake

Chapter 3. Christian Evangelicals Join the Antitax Movement

Chapter 4. Prophets of the Supply-Side Gospel

Chapter 5. Reaganomics

Part II: Turbulence (1982-1994)

Chapter 6. Resistance

Chapter 7. An Uneasy Political Marriage

Chapter 8. The Triumvirate

Chapter 9: A President Undone

Chapter 10: Showdown and Shutdown

Part III: Resurgence (1997-2023)

Chapter 11: Moving the Goalposts

Chapter 12: The Apple Sometimes Falls Far from the Tree

Chapter 13. The Nation Splits Apart

Chapter 14. Tax Cuts Are Trump

Chapter 15. Tax the Rich?

Chapter 16. The End of American Exceptionalism?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Graetz, Michael J. The Power to Destroy

ISBN:

9780691225555

0691225559

OCLC:

1407283187