Taxing America: Wilbur D. Mills, Congress, and the State, 1945-1975Taxing America provides the first historical study of Wilbur Daigh Mills, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee from 1958 to 1974. The work of Mills, an extremely influential politician between 1945 and 1975, offers considerable insights into the evolution of income taxation, Social Security and Medicare--three policies at the center of today's political debates. Unlike the existing historical scholarship, Zelizer's book focuses on the role of Congress, rather than the executive branch, in the evolution of the welfare state during this seminal period. |
Contents
An Arkansas Traveler Comes to Washington | 27 |
From Kensett to Congress | 28 |
Democrats and Lobbyists | 32 |
The House Committee on Ways and Means | 38 |
A New Generation of Policy | 43 |
The Promise of Expertise | 53 |
Where is the Money Coming From? | 55 |
Earmarked Taxes and the New Deal | 56 |
We Are All Keynesians Now | 191 |
The Political Mileage of Taxes | 208 |
Bringing Medicare into the State | 212 |
The One Man Veto 19611963 | 215 |
Moving Toward a Compromise | 221 |
Medicare Bettercare and Eldercare | 232 |
Congress Passes a ThreeLayerCake | 240 |
Medicares Mixed Precedents | 252 |
The Perils of Uncertainty 19371948 | 61 |
Financing the Expansion 19491950 | 66 |
The Legacy of the Amendments | 78 |
Taxation of Whom and for What? | 82 |
Recodifying the Code | 84 |
Taxation and the Economy | 96 |
Formulating an Agenda | 109 |
Back in the District | 115 |
The Postwar Tax Policymakers | 117 |
The Legislative Mills 19581961 | 119 |
NoWays and By NoMeans | 120 |
The Southern Expert | 132 |
Securely on the Hill | 145 |
The Postwar Fiscal Discourse | 147 |
Talking About Taxes | 149 |
Technocrats and Tax Reform | 159 |
The Alternatives Rejected | 169 |
Discourse and the Tax Community | 175 |
The Politics of Policy | 177 |
The Road to Tax Reduction | 179 |
Kennedy Mills and the Tax Community | 180 |
Subsidizing Economic Growth | 185 |
The War on Inflation | 255 |
Guns or Butter? | 257 |
Expenditure Control | 270 |
The Temporary Triumph of Expenditure Control | 279 |
Spending through Taxes | 283 |
Studying Reform | 285 |
A Task Worthy of Solomon | 298 |
The Reformers March Forward | 308 |
Expanding Social Security | 312 |
Inflation and Social Insurance 19691970 | 314 |
Rethinking Finance 1971 | 327 |
The Failed Campaign | 333 |
Politics and Pensions 1972 | 337 |
A New Type of Security | 343 |
COMING APART | 347 |
Looking Backward and Forward | 349 |
Losing the Ways and Means 19741976 | 350 |
Reconstructing Wilbur Mills | 361 |
The Promise of the American State | 371 |
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