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Title:
Their fair share : taxing the rich in the age of FDR / Joseph J. Thorndike.
Author:
Thorndike, Joseph J.
Publication Information:
Washington, D.C. : The Urban Institute Press, [2013]
Call Number:
HJ2377 .T46 2013
Abstract:
"A history of how President Roosevelt and his cabinet developed the ideas that became the New Deal and how negotiations between the President and the Congress brought to the ideas into legislation"--Provided by publisher.
ISBN:
9780877667711
Physical Description:
xii, 349 pages ; 23 cm
Contents:
A Nation of Taxpayers -- The Republican Roots of New Deal Taxation -- The State Roots of New Deal Taxation -- Early New Deal Taxation and the Moral Status of Tax Avoidance -- New Deal Economists and the Case for Saving the Poor -- New Deal Lawyers and the Case for Soaking the Rich -- Profits, Preferences, and Tax Avoidance -- The Fall and Rise of Progressive Reform -- The Creation of the Mass Income Tax -- Consolidation of the Wartime Regime -- The Durability of Reform.
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