Rich people's movements : grassroots campaigns to untax the one percent / Isaac William Martin.
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TextSeries: Studies in postwar American political developmentPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2013]Description: 1 online resource (xx, 275 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780199929009
- 0199929009
- Income tax -- United States
- Repeal of legislation -- United States
- Social movements -- United States
- Tax credits -- United States
- Rich people -- United States
- Abrogation -- États-Unis
- Mouvements sociaux -- États-Unis
- Crédit d'impôt -- États-Unis
- Riches -- États-Unis
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Public Finance
- Income tax
- Repeal of legislation
- Rich people
- Social movements
- Tax credits
- United States
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- HJ4652 .M386 2013eb
- 83.52
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: the riddle of rich people's movements -- The revolution of 1913 -- Populism against the income tax -- The Sixteenth Amendment repealers -- The most sinister lobby -- The power of women -- The radical rich -- Strange bedfellows -- The temporary triumph of estate tax repeal -- Conclusion: the century of rich people's movements.
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Why do protesters sometimes take to the streets to demand lower taxes on the rich? In this urgently relevant study, sociologist Isaac William Martin examines how these protesters used tactics that they learned in movements of the poor and powerless-and sometimes won big.
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