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03022aam a2200433 a 4500 001 BD5946326B5411E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160826010517 008 120717s2012 enk b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2012029079 020 $a 1107641403 (paperback) 020 $a 9781107641402 (paperback) 020 $a 1107017270 (hardback) 020 $a 9781107017276 (hardback) 035 $a (OCoLC)802103169 040 $a DLC $b eng $c DLC $d OCLCO $d UKMGB $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d CDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a HJ257.3 .I67 2012 082 00 $a 336.73 $2 23 084 $a POL040000 $2 bisacsh 100 00 $a Ippolito, Dennis S. 245 10 $a Deficits, debt, and the new politics of tax policy / $c Dennis S. Ippolito. 260 $a Cambridge ; $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2012. 300 $a xvii, 282 p. ; $c 24 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "This book provides a comprehensive historical account of federal tax policy that emphasizes the relationship between taxes and other components of the budget"-- $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a "Comprehensive: examines the historical development of the federal tax system; explains the relative importance of income taxes, payroll taxes, and other taxes in the modern era; and discusses the fairness, economic efficiency, and revenue-raising characteristics of federal tax policy - Policy-focused: analyzes federal tax policy in its budget policy context; emphasizes how decisionmaking on taxes is affected by spending policy (defense and domestic) and by fiscal policy (deficits and debt); focuses on the politics of tax policy as reflected in Democratic and Republican party differences - Timely: appraises the adequacy of the current federal tax system in terms of future national security and entitlement commitments and the enormous deficit and problems the federal government now faces; contends that neither party is being truthful about the higher revenue levels that will be needed to fund government without excessive deficits or debt; argues that the tax system is indeed 'broken' a"-- $c Provided by publisher. 505 8 $a Machine generated contents note: 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. 650 0 $a Fiscal policy $z United States. 650 0 $a Finance, Public $z United States. 650 0 $a Taxation $z United States $x History. 650 7 $a POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General. $2 bisacsh 856 42 $3 Cover image $u http://assets.cambridge.org/97811070/17276/cover/9781107017276.jpg 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180111023314.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826064646.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=BD5946326B5411E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search