Rich People's Movements
Grassroots Campaigns to Untax the One Percent
Seiten
2013
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-992899-6 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-992899-6 (ISBN)
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.
On tax day, April 15, 2010, hundreds of thousands of Americans demonstrated with signs demanding lower taxes on the richest one percent. Where do protest movements like this come from? Rich people are an unpopular minority with plenty of political influence. Why would rich people need to demonstrate in the streets to demand lower taxes-and why would anyone who wasn't rich join in the protest on their behalf?
Such rich people's movements are hardy perennials of American politics. Ever since the ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment in 1913, they have emerged whenever public policies are perceived to threaten the property rights of rich people. The protesters on behalf of the rich have picked up the protest tactics of the poor and powerless because they have been organized and led by activists who have acquired their skills and protest techniques from other social movements, from the Populists and Progressives of the early twentieth century to the feminists and anti-war activists of the mid-twentieth century.
At times when conservative Republicans are in power, rich people's movements have helped to bring about some of the biggest tax cuts for the rich in American history. This is the untold story of the tax clubs and Tea Parties that have shaped American politics and policy for the last hundred years.
On tax day, April 15, 2010, hundreds of thousands of Americans demonstrated with signs demanding lower taxes on the richest one percent. Where do protest movements like this come from? Rich people are an unpopular minority with plenty of political influence. Why would rich people need to demonstrate in the streets to demand lower taxes-and why would anyone who wasn't rich join in the protest on their behalf?
Such rich people's movements are hardy perennials of American politics. Ever since the ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment in 1913, they have emerged whenever public policies are perceived to threaten the property rights of rich people. The protesters on behalf of the rich have picked up the protest tactics of the poor and powerless because they have been organized and led by activists who have acquired their skills and protest techniques from other social movements, from the Populists and Progressives of the early twentieth century to the feminists and anti-war activists of the mid-twentieth century.
At times when conservative Republicans are in power, rich people's movements have helped to bring about some of the biggest tax cuts for the rich in American history. This is the untold story of the tax clubs and Tea Parties that have shaped American politics and policy for the last hundred years.
Isaac William Martin is an associate professor of sociology at the University of California - San Diego. He is the author of The Permanent Tax Revolt, and co-editor of After the Tax Revolt: California's Proposition 13 Turns 30 and The New Fiscal Sociology.
Preface ; Introduction: The Riddle of Rich People's Movements ; Chapter One: The Revolution of 1913 ; Chapter Two: Populism against the Income Tax ; Chapter Three: The Sixteenth Amendment Repealers ; Chapter Four: The Most Sinister Lobby ; Chapter Five: The Power of Women ; Chapter Six: The Radical Rich ; Chapter Seven: Strange Bedfellows ; Chapter Eight: The Temporary Triumph of Estate Tax Repeal ; Conclusion: The Century of Rich People's Movements
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 3.10.2013 |
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Reihe/Serie | Studies in Postwar American Political Development |
Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 236 x 157 mm |
Gewicht | 567 g |
Themenwelt | Recht / Steuern ► Steuern / Steuerrecht |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung | |
Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik | |
ISBN-10 | 0-19-992899-1 / 0199928991 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-992899-6 / 9780199928996 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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