American Tax Resisters
Harvard University Press
2014
Présentation de l'éditeur
“The American taxpayer”—angered by
government waste and satisfied only with spending cuts—has preoccupied
elected officials and political commentators since the Reagan
Revolution. But resistance to progressive taxation has older, deeper
roots. American Tax Resisters presents the full history of the
American anti-tax movement that has defended the pursuit of limited
taxes on wealth and battled efforts to secure social justice through
income redistribution for the past 150 years.
From the Tea Party to the Koch brothers, the major players in today’s anti-tax crusade emerge in Romain Huret’s
account as the heirs of a formidable—and far from ephemeral—political
movement. Diverse coalitions of Americans have rallied around the flag
of tax opposition since the Civil War, their grievances fueled by a
determination to defend private life against government intrusion and a
steadfast belief in the economic benefits and just rewards of untaxed
income. Local tax resisters were actively mobilized by business and
corporate interests throughout the early twentieth century, undeterred
by such setbacks as the Sixteenth Amendment establishing a federal
income tax. Zealously petitioning Congress and chipping at the edges of
progressive tax policies, they bequeathed hard-won experience to younger
generations of conservatives in their pursuit of laissez-faire
capitalism.
Capturing the decisive moments in U.S. history when tax resisters convinced a majority of Americans to join their crusade, Romain Huret explains how a once marginal ideology became mainstream, elevating economic success and individual entrepreneurialism over social sacrifice and solidarity.
Romain Huret is Associate Professor of American History at the University of Lyon 2 in France.
Capturing the decisive moments in U.S. history when tax resisters convinced a majority of Americans to join their crusade, Romain Huret explains how a once marginal ideology became mainstream, elevating economic success and individual entrepreneurialism over social sacrifice and solidarity.
Romain Huret is Associate Professor of American History at the University of Lyon 2 in France.
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