Download or read book The Permanent Tax Revolt written by Isaac William Martin and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2008-03-05 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tax cuts are such a pervasive feature of the American political landscape that the political establishment rarely questions them. Since 2001, Congress has abolished the tax on inherited wealth and passed a major income tax cut every year, including two of the three largest income tax cuts in American history despite a long drawn-out war and massive budget deficits. The Permanent Tax Revolt traces the origins of this anti-tax campaign to the 1970s, in particular, to the influence of grassroots tax rebellions as homeowners across the United States rallied to protest their local property taxes. Isaac William Martin advances the provocative new argument that the property tax revolt was not a conservative backlash against big government, but instead a defensive movement for government protection from the market. The tax privilege that the tax rebels were defending was in fact one of the largest government social programs in the postwar era. While the movement to defend homeowners' tax breaks drew much of its inspiration—and many of its early leaders—from the progressive movement for welfare rights, politicians on both sides of the aisle quickly learned that supporting big tax cuts was good politics. In time, American political institutions and the strategic choices made by the protesters ultimately channeled the movement toward the kind of tax relief favored by the political right, with dramatic consequences for American politics today.
Download or read book What the Original Property Tax Revolutionaries Wanted and it is Not What You Think Review of Isaac William Martin the Permanent Tax Revolt written by Darien Shanske and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reverberations of the tax revolt that began in California in 1978 remain very much with us. Taxes were cut dramatically first in California, then throughout the country at the state level, and then at the federal level. The tax revolt has generated a huge literature in the legal academy (and elsewhere), much of it aimed at explaining why it happened when and how that it did. Isaac Martin, a sociologist, offers a new explanation for the tax revolt in The Permanent Tax Revolt. This review essay summarizes this book and then proceeds to demonstrate how Martin's analysis undermines the dominant approach to local government law and finance - the Tiebout model. What is most perplexing about the tax revolt is why it began with the local property tax. This tax would seem to have been directly under the control of the voters. If the property tax rate was perceived as too high, then voters just needed to elect local officials who would lower taxes. The prevalent explanation (that of William Fischel) for the great tax revolt that began in California is that an event happened at the state level that systematically caused voters to turn against the property tax. This supposed catalyst was the mandate handed down by the California Supreme Court that the state must equalize school funding across school districts. This meant, pragmatically, that one's local property taxes could no longer go directly to support one's local schools. Faced with this prospect, voters rejected the property tax. Note that in this model local voters are analyzed as consumers who treated their taxes as a price for a service; they revolted when it appeared they would be asked to pay the price without the service. Note as well that this explanation for the tax revolt suggests that virtually any attempt to achieve more equitable public school finance at the local level is doomed to be self-defeating because Americans expect a market-type relationship between local taxes and services. Martin argues that this explanation for the tax revolt is false. Martin explains that the tax revolt is better understood as a response to a change in the manner in which the property tax was collected. Residential property owners had grown accustomed to having their property assessed at a value below its market value. This informal tax privilege was not only valuable in absolute terms, but psychologically because the privilege essentially meant that property taxes on one's home would rise little, if at all, over the many years that one might own the home. From the perspective of political and tax theory, such an informal privilege invited corruption and inefficient use of resources. Nevertheless, the informal privilege did provide a valuable form of social insurance and was perceived as such, especially by those voters on fixed incomes. According to Martin, the tax revolt was not sparked by jaded consumers, but by angry homeowners who had deep ties to their communities and did not want to be displaced by market forces. On Martin's view the tax revolt should caution policymakers from doing away with vital forms of social insurance that protect local homeowners from market forces. This is essentially the reverse of the prevailing wisdom described above, which insists that voters will not tolerate a deviation from the rule of market forces at the local level.
Download or read book Revolt of the Haves written by Robert Kuttner and published by New York : Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1980 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tax Revolt written by Phil Valentine and published by Thomas Nelson Inc. This book was released on 2005-03-08 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since the Boston Tea Party, courageous and patriotic citizens have rebelled against the government's overbearing and abusive taxation of its constituents. This book is the powerful rallying cry to all Americans to continue to fight against our ever-increasing taxes. Using as a touchstone the heroic incident in Tennessee, when citizens converged on the state capitol to protest and repeatedly beat back attempts to pass a state tax, Valentine weaves an inspiring story of how patriotic citizens have stood up to taxes in the past, how many intrepid constituents continue to fight, and how Americans should resist and even revolt against taxes on a state and national level. By exploring the crippling effects of taxes on our economy and the lives of each individual citizen and drawing from the stories of other revolts (with exclusive behind-the-scenes details about the Tennessee rebellion), Valentine will anger and incite readers to action, giving them the motivation and know-how to spread the word and activate a powerful new revolution.
Download or read book The Great American Tax Revolt written by Lester A. Sobel and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Secrets of the Tax Revolt written by James Ring Adams and published by San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. This book was released on 1984 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Economics of the Tax Revolt written by Jan P. Seymour and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P. This book was released on 1979 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rich People s Movements written by Isaac William Martin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-02 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do protesters sometimes take to the streets to demand lower taxes on the rich? In this urgently relevant study, sociologist Isaac William Martin examines how these protesters used tactics that they learned in movements of the poor and powerless-and sometimes won big.
Download or read book A World History of Tax Rebellions written by David F. Burg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 809 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A World History of Tax Rebellions is an exhaustive reference source for over 4,300 years of riots, rebellions, protests, and war triggered by abusive taxation and tax collecting systems around the world. Each of the chronologically arranged entries focuses on a specific historical event, analyzing its roots, and socio-economic context.
Download or read book Tax Revolt U S A written by Martin Alfred Larson and published by Washington : Liberty Lobby. This book was released on 1973 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The New Fiscal Sociology written by Isaac William Martin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-13 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents sixteen essays by comparative historical scholars who offer a survey of the new fiscal sociology.
Download or read book Those Dirty Rotten Taxes written by Charles Adams and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, as long-overdue calls for abolishing or overhauling the IRS are finally being heard in the halls of Congress, Those Dirty Rotten Taxes teaches us that we are continuing a long and vitally important American tradition. We have overthrown the tyranny of British taxes, Federalists' taxes, the Tariff, and the Revenuers' system. Has the tyranny of the Income Tax finally had its day?
Download or read book Tax Revolt written by Martin Alfred Larson and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 1985 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book I m Mad as Hell written by Howard Jarvis and published by Crown. This book was released on 1979 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Tax Revolt Tradition in American Politics and Law written by James Ring Adams and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rich People s Movements written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do protesters sometimes take to the streets to demand lower taxes on the rich? In this urgently relevant study, sociologist Isaac William Martin examines how these protesters used tactics that they learned in movements of the poor and powerless-and sometimes won big
Download or read book Taxpayers in Revolt written by David T. Beito and published by Ludwig von Mises Institute. This book was released on 1989 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
