Rich People's Movements Grassroots Campaigns to Untax the One Percent

Name: Rich People's Movements Grassroots Campaigns to Untax the One Percent
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ISBN: 9780199928996

ISBN-10: 0199928991

ISBN-13: 9780199928996

Edition: 2013

Authors: Isaac Martin

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On tax day, April 15, 2010, hundreds of thousands of Americans demonstrated with signs demanding lower taxes on the richest one percent. Where do protest movements like this come from? Rich people are an unpopular minority with plenty of political influence. Why would rich people need to demonstrate in the streets to demand lower taxes-and why would anyone who wasn't rich join in the protest on their behalf?Such rich people's movements are hardy perennials of American politics. Ever since the ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment in 1913, they have emerged whenever public policies are perceived to threaten the property rights of rich people. The protesters on behalf of the rich have…

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List price: $58.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/2/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 9.29" wide x 6.18" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Abbreviations


Introduction: The Riddle of Rich People's Movements



The Revolution of 1913



Populism against the Income Tax



The Sixteenth Amendment Repealers



The Most Sinister Lobby



The Power of Women



The Radical Rich



Strange Bedfellows



The Temporary Triumph of Estate Tax Repeal


Conclusion: The Century of Rich People's Movements


Notes


Index