In this Book
- Refinancing America: The Republican Antitax Agenda
- Book
- 2002
- Published by: State University of New York Press
summary
A fascinating account of the long history of antitax sentiments within the Republican party, Refinancing America looks at how opposition to income and wealth taxation became the dominant factor influencing the party’s political agenda. The countless proposals for tax cuts introduced by Republicans in Congress during the 1990s, as well as the Bush administration’s $1.6 trillion tax cut in May 2001, were not aberrations, but rather the continuation of a long tradition of hostility to taxation. Nevertheless, the rhetoric and devotion to the antitax cause in the 1990s was more pronounced than in the past, and this book explains how this more extreme strain of antitax politics came to dominate the GOP.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright, Dedication
- pp. iii-v
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xiii-xiv
- Introduction
- pp. 1-17
- 2. Forever a Minority Party?
- pp. 35-56
- 3. Reagan Changes the Course
- pp. 57-69
- 4. The Tax Deadlock Decade
- pp. 71-106
- 5. Tax Policy in the Twenty-first Century
- pp. 107-136
- 6. GOP Campaign to Kill the “Death Tax”
- pp. 137-158
- 7. The Great Corporate Tax Giveaway
- pp. 159-168
- 8. The Politics of the Surplus
- pp. 169-198
- Appendix 1: Charts
- pp. 205-209
- Appendix 2: Tables
- pp. 211-225
- Bibliography
- pp. 267-270
Additional Information
ISBN
9780791487549
DOI
MARC Record
OCLC
55939313
Pages
280
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No