Title Taxing the rich : a history of fiscal fairness in the United States and Europe / Kenneth Scheve and David Stasavage

Published Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2016] ©2016

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 266 pages) : illustrations Series Book collections on Project MUSE Contents Why might governments tax the rich? -- Treating citizens as equals -- The income tax over two centuries -- Taxing inheritance -- Taxes on the rich in context -- The conscription of wealth -- The role of war technology -- Why taxes on the rich declined -- What future for taxing the rich? Summary "Taxing the Rich draws on unparalleled evidence from twenty countries over the last two centuries to provide the broadest and most in-depth history of progressive taxation available. Scheve and Stasavage explore the intellectual and political debates surrounding the taxation of the wealthy while also providing the most detailed examination to date of when taxes have been levied against the rich and when they haven't. Fairness in debates about taxing the rich has depended on different views of what it means to treat people as equals and whether taxing the rich advances or undermines this norm. Scheve and Stasavage argue that governments don't tax the rich just because inequality is high or rising--they do it when people believe that such taxes compensate for the state unfairly privileging the wealthy. Progressive taxation saw its heyday in the twentieth century, when compensatory arguments for taxing the rich focused on unequal sacrifice in mass warfare. Today, as technology gives rise to wars of more limited mobilization, such arguments are no longer persuasive. Taxing the Rich shows how the future of tax reform will depend on whether political and economic conditions allow for new compensatory arguments to be made."--Publisher's Web site Analysis Ability To Pay At Best Bond (finance) Capital levy Conscription Consideration Consumption tax Corporate tax Debt Direct tax Economic efficiency Economic growth Economic inequality Economic interventionism Economic policy Economics Economist Economy Emmanuel Saez Employment Equality of outcome Estate tax in the United States Excise Tax Expense Finance Financial crisis Flat tax Funding Gift tax Globalization Government revenue Gross domestic product Incentive Income distribution Income tax in the United States Income tax Income Indirect tax Inflation Inheritance tax Institution Jean Tirole John Stuart Mill Legislation Legislature Luxury goods Mass mobilization Middle class Oligarchy On War Payroll tax Pension People's Budget Percentage point Percentage Political economy Political party Political science Political spectrum Politics Progressive tax Property tax Provision (accounting) Public finance Quarterly Journal of Economics Rates (tax) Redistribution of income and wealth Sacrifice Salary Self-interest Stanford University Suffrage Tariff Tax Fairness Tax Schedule Tax deduction Tax incidence Tax law Tax policy Tax rate Tax revenue Tax Taxation in the United Kingdom Taxation in the United States Taxpayer Technology Thomas Piketty Total revenue Universal suffrage University of Amsterdam War effort War reparations War Warfare Wealth tax Wealth Welfare state Welfare World War I World War II Notes "Russell Sage Foundation, New York." Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-259) and index Notes Print version record Subject Rich people -- Taxation -- United States -- History Rich people -- Taxation -- Europe -- History Income tax -- United States -- History Income tax -- Europe -- History Wealth -- United States -- History Wealth -- Europe -- History BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Public Finance. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare. Income tax Rich people -- Taxation Wealth Einkommensteuer Verteilungsgerechtigkeit Erbschaftsteuer Steuerpolitik Steuersystem Steuerprogression Europe United States Europa USA Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Russell Sage Foundation. LC no. 2016930691 ISBN 1400880378 9781400880379

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