LEADER 03594nam 2200469 450 001 9910159006103321 005 20230721043418.0 010 $a0-8047-6317-8 024 7 $a10.1515/9780804763172 035 $a(CKB)3710000001018546 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5407257 035 $a(DE-B1597)564578 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780804763172 035 $a(OCoLC)1198931393 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001018546 100 $a20180620d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe permanent tax revolt $ehow the property tax transformed American politics /$fIsaac William Martin 210 1$aStanford, California :$cStanford University Press,$d2008. 215 $a1 online resource (xl, 249 pages) 311 $a0-8047-5871-9 311 $a0-8047-5870-0 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tAcknowledgments -- $t1. Introducing the Tax Revolt -- $t2. A Seedbed of Taxpayer Revolt: The Modernization of the American Property Tax -- $t3. The Outbreak of a Tax Protest Movement -- $t4. The Two Faces of Federalism -- $t5. A New Ball Game: How the Tax Revolt Turned Right -- $t6. Welcome to the Tax Cutting Party: How the Tax Revolt Transformed Republican Politics -- $t7. American Exceptionalism Reconsidered -- $tEpilogue: Lessons of the Tax Revolt -- $tAppendix 1: How Great Was the Tax Privilege of Fractional Assessment? -- $tAppendix 2:Was Proposition 13 Really a Turning Point? -- $tAppendix 3: How Did Tax Limitation Policies Affect the Politics of Taxation? -- $tArchival Sources and Their Abbreviations -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aTax cuts are such a pervasive feature of the American political landscape that the political establishment rarely questions them. Since 2001, Congress has abolished the tax on inherited wealth and passed a major income tax cut every year, including two of the three largest income tax cuts in American history despite a long drawn-out war and massive budget deficits. The Permanent Tax Revolt traces the origins of this anti-tax campaign to the 1970s, in particular, to the influence of grassroots tax rebellions as homeowners across the United States rallied to protest their local property taxes. Isaac William Martin advances the provocative new argument that the property tax revolt was not a conservative backlash against big government, but instead a defensive movement for government protection from the market. The tax privilege that the tax rebels were defending was in fact one of the largest government social programs in the postwar era. While the movement to defend homeowners' tax breaks drew much of its inspiration?and many of its early leaders?from the progressive movement for welfare rights, politicians on both sides of the aisle quickly learned that supporting big tax cuts was good politics. In time, American political institutions and the strategic choices made by the protesters ultimately channeled the movement toward the kind of tax relief favored by the political right, with dramatic consequences for American politics today. 606 $aProperty tax$zUnited States 606 $aTaxation$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government 615 0$aProperty tax 615 0$aTaxation 676 $a320.973 700 $aMartin$b Isaac William$01236267 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910159006103321 996 $aThe permanent tax revolt$92870751 997 $aUNINA