The Hidden Welfare State Tax Expenditures And Social Policy In The United States(1st Edition)
Authors:
Christopher Howard
In Stock
Shipment time
Expected shipping within 2 DaysPopular items with books
Total Price:
$0
Solution Manual Includes
Price:
$9.99
Book details
ISBN: 069100529X, 978-0691005294
Book publisher: Princeton University Press (February 22, 1999)
Book Summary: Despite costing hundreds of billions of dollars and subsidizing everything from homeownership and child care to health insurance, tax expenditures (commonly known as tax loopholes) have received little attention from those who study American government. This oversight has contributed to an incomplete and misleading portrait of U.S. social policy. Here Christopher Howard analyzes the "hidden" welfare state created by such programs as tax deductions for home mortgage interest and employer-provided retirement pensions, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and the Targeted Jobs Tax Credit. Basing his work on the histories of these four tax expenditures, Howard highlights the distinctive characteristics of all such policies. Tax expenditures are created more routinely and quietly than traditional social programs, for instance, and over time generate unusual coalitions of support. They expand and contract without deliberate changes to individual programs. Howard helps the reader to appreciate the historic links between the hidden welfare state and U.S. tax policy, which accentuate the importance of Congress and political parties. He also focuses on the reasons why individuals, businesses, and public officials support tax expenditures. The Hidden Welfare State will appeal to anyone interested in the origins, development, and structure of the American welfare state. Students of public finance will gain new insights into the politics of taxation. And as policymakers increasingly promote tax expenditures to address social problems, the book offers some sobering lessons about how such programs work.
Customers also bought these books
Frequently Bought Together
Quantum Foundations Of Computer Vision A Guide For Researchers And Practitioners Python And Quantum Language Code Future Proof Computer Vision - 1st Edition
Dr Israel Carlos Lomovasky
ISBN: 979-8861978750
$0 $21.99
Manufacturing Systems Theory And Practice - 2nd Edition
George Chryssolouris
ISBN: 0387256830, 978-0387256832
$0 $44.86
Organizational Behavior Managing People And Organizations - 10th Edition
Ricky W. Griffin And Gregory Moorhead
ISBN: 978-0538478137, 9781133171942, 538478136, 9780078029462, 978-1133626695
$0 $164.21
Principles of Auditing and Other Assurance Services - 19th edition
Ray Whittington
ISBN: 978-0077804770, 78025613, 77804775, 978-0078025617
$0 $19.05
Personal Finance Planning With 1-2-3 - 1st Edition
Steven Adams
ISBN: 013660465X, 9780136604655
$0 $50.00
Teenagers Guide To Economics And Finance - 1st Edition
C. M. Flumiani
ISBN: 0913314161, 9780913314166
$0 $41.00Top Reviews for Books
