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  • Death by a Thousand Cuts
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    Death by a thousand cuts

    Michael J. Graetz, Ian Shapiro

    This fast-paced book by Yale professors Michael Graetz and Ian Shapiro unravels the following mystery: How is it that the estate tax, which has been on the books continuously since 1916 and is paid by only the wealthiest two percent of Americans, was repealed in 2001 with broad bipartisan support...

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  • My Tax Dollars
    My Tax Dollars

    My tax dollars

    Ruth Braunstein

    When the mundane reality of paying taxes takes on moral significanceIn My Tax Dollars, Ruth Braunstein maps the contested moral landscape in which Americans experience and make sense of the tax system. Braunstein tells the stories of Americans who view taxpaying as more than a mundane chore: anti...

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  • Read My Lips
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    Read my lips

    Vanessa S. Williamson

    A surprising and revealing look at what Americans really believe about taxesConventional wisdom holds that Americans hate taxes. But the conventional wisdom is wrong. Bringing together national survey data with in-depth interviews, Read My Lips presents a surprising picture of tax attitudes in th...

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  • The Power to Destroy
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    The power to destroy

    Michael J. Graetz

    How the antitax fringe went mainstream—and now threatens America’s futureThe postwar United States enjoyed large, widely distributed economic rewards—and most Americans accepted that taxes were a reasonable price to pay for living in a society of shared prosperity. Then in 1978 California enacted...

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