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100 1 $aMichelmore, Molly C.
245 10 $aTax and spend :$bthe welfare state, tax politics, and the limits of American liberalism /$cMolly Michelmore.
260 $aPhiladelphia :$bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$cc2012.
300 $a243 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
490 1 $aPolitics and culture in modern America
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [161]-228) and index.
505 0 $aDefending the welfare and taxing state -- Market failure -- Things fall apart -- Fed up with taxes -- Game over -- Epilogue: stalemate.
520 $aTaxes dominate contemporary American politics. Yet while many rail against big government, few Americans are prepared to give up the benefits they receive from the state. In Tax and Spend, historian Molly C. Michelmore examines an unexpected source of this contradiction and shows why many Americans have come to hate government but continue to demand the security it provides. Tracing the development of taxing and spending policy over the course of the twentieth century, Michelmore uncovers the origins of today's antitax and antigovernment politics in choices made by liberal state builders in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. By focusing on two key instruments of twentieth-century economic and social policy, Aid to Families with Dependent Children and the federal income tax, Tax and Spend explains the antitax logic that has guided liberal policy makers since the earliest days of Franklin Roosevelt's presidency. Grounded in careful archival research, this book reveals that the liberal social compact forged during the New Deal, World War II, and the postwar years included not only generous social benefits for the middle class--including Social Security, Medicare, and a host of expensive but hidden state subsidies--but also a commitment to preserve low taxes for the majority of American taxpayers... -- Book Description.
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650 0 $aWelfare state$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y20th century.
651 0 $aUnited States$xEconomic conditions$y20th century.
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