Deficits, Debt, and the New Politics of Tax Policy

Informationen zum Autor Dennis S. Ippolito is Eugene McElvaney Professor of Political Science at Southern Methodist University. Among his previous books are Why Budgets Matter: Budget Policy and American Politics, Uncertain Legacies: Federal Budget Policy from Roosevelt through Reagan, Hidden Spending: The Politics of Federal Credit Programs, Congressional Spending, and The Budget and National Politics. He was awarded the 2010 Aaron B. Wildavsky Award for Lifetime Scholarly Achievement in the Field of Public Budgeting and Finance. Klappentext Ippolito provides a historical account of US tax policy that emphasizes the relationship between taxes and budget components. Zusammenfassung Ippolito provides an accessible treatment of what comprises the US federal tax system and how it was created. It also analyzes how the 'tax wars' that have been waged since the 1960s affect our ability to deal with the serious deficit and debt problems the nation now faces. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. A brief history of federal taxation; 2. The stable era - World War II to the 1960s; 3. Destabilizing tax policy - Vietnam and the 1970s; 4. The Reagan strategy - balancing low; 5. The Clinton strategy - balancing high; 6. Bush, Obama, and fiscal deadlock; 7. Reconnecting taxes and budgets.

Product details

• Authors: Dennis S Ippolito, Dennis S. Ippolito, Dennis S. (Southern Methodist University Ippolito, Ippolito Dennis S.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.11.2012
• EAN: 9781107017276
• ISBN: 978-1-107-01727-6
• No. of pages: 302
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, Political Parties, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, Political Economy, Taxation, Central / national / federal government policies, Public finance and taxation