Read My Lips: Why Americans Are Proud To Pay Taxes - 9780691174556

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- PREFACE: THE TAX REVOLT WAS A LONG TIME AGO -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- 1. Pride and Prejudice and Taxes -- 2. How the Taxpaying Experience Obscures Low-Income Taxpayers -- 3. Where Should Tax Money Go? -- 4. How the Taxpaying Experience Shapes Attitudes about Progressivity -- 5. (How) Is Tax Money Wasted? -- Conclusion -- APPENDIX A. THE U.S. TAX SYSTEM: A BRIEF INTRODUCTION -- APPENDIX B. MEET THE INTERVIEWEES -- NOTES -- INDEX

• | Author: Vanessa Williamson
• | Publisher: Princeton University Press
• | Publication Date: Mar 21, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 304 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Business & Economics
• | ISBN-10: 0691174555
• | ISBN-13: 9780691174556