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Author
Publisher
Madison Books
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
Adams makes a convincing case for taxes being the cause of many of the landmark events in civilization's history. Starting in ancient Egypt, Adams surveys how governments established and collected their taxes, and how these procedures led to the fall of Rome, the rise of Islam and the Arabs' successful conquests, the signing of the Magna Carta, the American Revolution and Civil War, and many other momentous events. Adams also offers suggestions for...
Author
Language
English
Description
"The 16th Amendment to the Constitution legalized federal income tax, but what if there were problems with the 1913 ratification of that amendment? Problems that call into question decades of tax collecting, and could even bring down the US economy. There is a surprising truth to this possibility a truth wholly entertained by Steve Berry, a top-ten New York Times bestselling writer, in his new thriller, The Patriot Threat. His protagonist, Cotton...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"An engaging and enlightening account of taxation told through lively, dramatic, and sometimes ludicrous stories drawn from around the world and across the ages. Governments have always struggled to tax in ways that are effective and tolerably fair. Sometimes they fail grotesquely, as when, in 1898, the British ignited a rebellion in Sierra Leone by imposing a tax on huts?and, in repressing it, ended up burning the very huts they intended to tax....
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The U.S. tax code is a total write-off. Crammed with loopholes and special interest provisions, it works for no one except tax lawyers, accountants, and huge corporations. Not for the first time, we have reached a breaking point--in fact, we reach one every thirty-two years. T. R. Reid crisscrosses the globe in search of exact solutions to the urgent tax problems of the United States. With an uncanny knack for making a complex subjects not just accessible...
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Series
Publisher
Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. Many of the problems of globalization confronting us today-including finding the right balance between economic growth, technological advance, and international trade, and human welfare-also troubled earlier generations. David Ricardo's Principles of Political Economy and Taxation represents an important early attempt to illuminate the problem and to offer viable...
14) Taxes in America
Author
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Arguments about taxation are among the most heated- no other topic is as influential to the role of government and the distribution of costs and benefits in America. But while understanding of our tax system is of vital importance, the complexity can create confusion. Two of America's leading authorities on taxes, Leonard E. Burman and Joel Slemrod, bring clarity in this concise explanation of how our tax system works, how it affects people and businesses,...
Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In Tax the Rich! Morris Pearl, the millionaire chair of the Patriotic Millionaires, and Erica Payne, the organization's founder, take readers on an insider's tour of the nation's tax code and show how the rich (and the politicians they control) structured the tax code to make themselves even richer. They explain how to un-rig the economy through the tax code to reverse America's ever-growing and dangerously destabilizing concentration of wealth and...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The FairTax Book offers a new look at the fast-growing populist tax reform movement that's poised to become a key campaign issue for 2008
In 2005, firebrand radio talk show host Neal Boortz and Georgia congressman John Linder teamed up to create The FairTax Book, the first book devoted to the FairTax movement they had been promoting for years. Riding the growing groundswell of popular support for the...
20) Taxes
Author
Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
This series fills unmet needs in students' education: understanding money and how the economy works; and managing and saving their own money, from today's allowance to tomorrow's earnings.
Everyone agrees that governments need money for things like national defense, police and firemen, and schools. How much money they need, and how the tax money is spent, are where the disagreements begin.
