LEADER 04786nam 2200769 a 450 001 9910463585403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-89854-3 010 $a0-8122-0674-6 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812206746 035 $a(CKB)3240000000065390 035 $a(OCoLC)824522203 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10642116 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000631142 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11386433 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000631142 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10592088 035 $a(PQKB)10786979 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441781 035 $a(OCoLC)786908723 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse17650 035 $a(DE-B1597)449519 035 $a(OCoLC)979576884 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812206746 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441781 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10642116 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL421104 035 $a(EXLCZ)993240000000065390 100 $a20111021d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTax and spend$b[electronic resource] $ethe welfare state, tax politics, and the limits of American liberalism /$fMolly Michelmore 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (252 p.) 225 0 $aPolitics and Culture in Modern America 225 0$aPolitics and culture in modern America 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8122-2299-7 311 $a0-8122-4388-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [161]-228) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction: Tax Matters --$tChapter 1. Defending the Welfare and Taxing State --$tChapter 2. Market Failure --$tChapter 3. Things Fall Apart --$tChapter 4. Fed Up with Taxes --$tChapter 5. Game Over --$tEpilogue: Stalemate --$tNotes --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aTaxes dominate contemporary American politics. Yet while many rail against big government, few Americans are prepared to give up the benefits they receive from the state. In Tax and Spend, historian Molly C. Michelmore examines an unexpected source of this contradiction and shows why many Americans have come to hate government but continue to demand the security it provides. Tracing the development of taxing and spending policy over the course of the twentieth century, Michelmore uncovers the origins of today's antitax and antigovernment politics in choices made by liberal state builders in the 1930's, 1940's, and 1950's. By focusing on two key instruments of twentieth-century economic and social policy, Aid to Families with Dependent Children and the federal income tax, Tax and Spend explains the antitax logic that has guided liberal policy makers since the earliest days of Franklin Roosevelt's presidency. Grounded in careful archival research, this book reveals that the liberal social compact forged during the New Deal, World War II, and the postwar years included not only generous social benefits for the middle class-including Social Security, Medicare, and a host of expensive but hidden state subsidies-but also a commitment to preserve low taxes for the majority of American taxpayers. In a surprising twist on conventional political history, Michelmore's analysis links postwar liberalism directly to the rise of the Republican right in the last decades of the twentieth century. Liberals' decision to reconcile public demand for low taxes and generous social benefits by relying on hidden sources of revenues and invisible kinds of public subsidy, combined with their persistent defense of taxpayer rights and suspicion of "tax eaters" on the welfare rolls, not only fueled but helped create the contours of antistate politics at the core of the Reagan Revolution. 410 0$aPolitics and culture in modern America 606 $aTaxation$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aWelfare state$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aTaxation$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aWelfare state$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y20th century 607 $aUnited States$xEconomic conditions$y20th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aTaxation$xHistory 615 0$aWelfare state$xHistory 615 0$aTaxation$xPolitical aspects$xHistory 615 0$aWelfare state$xPolitical aspects$xHistory 676 $a336.200973 700 $aMichelmore$b Molly C$01048807 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463585403321 996 $aTax and spend$92477328 997 $aUNINA