The poor pay more
Author: David Caplovitz
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Published: 1968
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Author: David Caplovitz
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Published: 1968
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Phil R. Kaufman
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 32
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Frances Williams
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1977-08-31
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 1349157791
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Paul Clark
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 204
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David Piachaud
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Published: 1974
Total Pages: 25
ISBN-13: 9780903963091
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Katherine S. Newman
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2011-02-27
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 0520269675
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"New South? Not really. A compelling demonstration that the South's regressive taxation wreaks so much havoc that the federal government has no choice but to swoop in at great cost and attempt to band-aid all the poverty and dysfunction. The best argument yet for a new federalism that says enough is enough."—David B. Grusky, Stanford University “Taxing the Poor makes extremely important points that are not now—but must be—part of the American discussion of poverty and social policy. The authors make these points with fascinating details on the history of how we got to this place. Bravo to Newman and O’Brien for thoroughly laying out a politcal economy of taxation.”—Robin Einhorn, author of American Taxation, American Slavery
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Published: 2010-04-01
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1429926643
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe New York Times bestselling work of undercover reportage from our sharpest and most original social critic, with a new foreword by Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that a job—any job—can be the ticket to a better life. But how does anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6 an hour? To find out, Ehrenreich left her home, took the cheapest lodgings she could find, and accepted whatever jobs she was offered. Moving from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, she worked as a waitress, a hotel maid, a cleaning woman, a nursing-home aide, and a Wal-Mart sales clerk. She lived in trailer parks and crumbling residential motels. Very quickly, she discovered that no job is truly "unskilled," that even the lowliest occupations require exhausting mental and muscular effort. She also learned that one job is not enough; you need at least two if you int to live indoors. Nickel and Dimed reveals low-rent America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity—a land of Big Boxes, fast food, and a thousand desperate stratagems for survival. Read it for the smoldering clarity of Ehrenreich's perspective and for a rare view of how "prosperity" looks from the bottom. And now, in a new foreword, Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, explains why, twenty years on in America, Nickel and Dimed is more relevant than ever.
Author: David Caplovitz
Publisher: [New York] : Free Press of Glencoe
Published: 1963
Total Pages: 270
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: National Consumer Council
Publisher: London [etc.] : Macmillan for the National Consumer Council
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780333236444
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Vanessa S. Williamson
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2019-03-05
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 0691191603
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA surprising and revealing look at what Americans really believe about taxes Conventional wisdom holds that Americans hate taxes. But the conventional wisdom is wrong. Bringing together national survey data with in-depth interviews, Read My Lips presents a surprising picture of tax attitudes in the United States. Vanessa Williamson demonstrates that Americans view taxpaying as a civic responsibility and a moral obligation. But they worry that others are shirking their duties, in part because the experience of taxpaying misleads Americans about who pays taxes and how much. Perceived "loopholes" convince many income tax filers that a flat tax might actually raise taxes on the rich, and the relative invisibility of the sales and payroll taxes encourages many to underestimate the sizable tax contributions made by poor and working people. Americans see being a taxpayer as a role worthy of pride and respect, a sign that one is a contributing member of the community and the nation. For this reason, the belief that many Americans are not paying their share is deeply corrosive to the social fabric. The widespread misperception that immigrants, the poor, and working-class families pay little or no taxes substantially reduces public support for progressive spending programs and undercuts the political standing of low-income people. At the same time, the belief that the wealthy pay less than their share diminishes confidence that the political process represents most people. Upending the idea of Americans as knee-jerk opponents of taxes, Read My Lips examines American taxpaying as an act of political faith. Ironically, the depth of the American civic commitment to taxpaying makes the failures of the tax system, perceived and real, especially potent frustrations.