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Taxing the Poor : Doing Damage to the Truly Disadvantaged / / Katherine S. Newman, Rourke O'Brien



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Autore: Newman Katherine S. Visualizza persona
Titolo: Taxing the Poor : Doing Damage to the Truly Disadvantaged / / Katherine S. Newman, Rourke O'Brien Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2011]
©2011
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (263 p.)
Disciplina: 336.20086 9420973
Soggetto topico: Poor - Taxation - Southern States
Poor -- Taxation -- Southern States
Poor - Taxation - United States
Poor -- Taxation -- United States
Poverty - Southern States
Poverty -- Southern States
Poverty - United States
Poverty -- United States
Political Science
Law, Politics & Government
Public Finance
Soggetto non controllato: access to health care
african americans
american south
consumers
consumption
corporate taxes
crime
early mortality
economics
food deserts
health care
health insurance
high school dropout
income taxes
legislation
modern health care
nonfiction
obesity
political science
poverty
prop 13
property taxes
public education
race
racism
regressive sales tax
rural
sales tax
social issues
social policy
social science
structural poverty
taxation
taxes
teen pregnancy
Persona (resp. second.): O'BrienRourke
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One. The Evolution of Southern Tax Structures -- Chapter Two. Barriers to Change: Inertia, Supermajorities, and Constitutional Amendments -- Chapter Three. The Geography of Poverty -- Chapter Four. Tax Traps and Regional Poverty Regimes -- Chapter Five. The Bottom Line -- Conclusion: Are We Our Brothers' Keepers? -- Appendix I. How Many Lags of x? -- Appendix II. Tables -- Notes -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: This book looks at the way we tax the poor in the United States, particularly in the American South, where poor families are often subject to income taxes, and where regressive sales taxes apply even to food for home consumption. Katherine S. Newman and Rourke L. O'Brien argue that these policies contribute in unrecognized ways to poverty-related problems like obesity, early mortality, the high school dropout rates, teen pregnancy, and crime. They show how, decades before California's passage of Proposition 13, many southern states implemented legislation that makes it almost impossible to raise property or corporate taxes, a pattern now growing in the western states. Taxing the Poor demonstrates how sales taxes intended to replace the missing revenue-taxes that at first glance appear fair-actually punish the poor and exacerbate the very conditions that drove them into poverty in the first place.
Titolo autorizzato: Taxing the Poor  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-27800-6
9786613278005
0-520-94893-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910814736703321
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Serie: Wildavsky Forum Series