The Woodrow Wilson Center Press
Federal Taxation in America: A Short History, 2nd edition
Extending from the ratification of the Constitution to the present day. W. Elliot Brownlee describes the five principal stages of federal taxation in relation to the crises that led to their adoption--the formation of the republic, the Civil War, World War I, the Great Depression, and World War II. Now in a new edition, Brownlee expands his coverage to the present, with a new chapter focusing on the tax policies of the current Bush administration. This discussion is set within a larger analysis of contemporary tax and fiscal issues, including war finance, Social Security, and Medicare.
What People are Saying
Chapter List
Acknowledgments
Part I. The History Regimes
1. The Formative Tax Regimes, 1789-1916
2. The Democratic-Statist Tax Regimes, 1916-1941
3. The Era of Easy Finance, 1941-1980
Part II. The Conservative Challenge
4. The "Reagan Revolution," 1980-1986
5. Reviving the Old Regime, 1986-2000
6. Threatening the Old Regime, 2000-present
Historiography and Bibliography
Index