Taxing America : Wilbur D. Mills, Congress, and the state, 1945-1975
Taxing America traces the career of Wilbur D. Mills, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee from 1958 to 1974. Blending methodological insights from history, political science, and sociology, this 1999 book provides one of the first comparative histories of income taxation, Social Security, and Medicare.
Print Book, English, 2000
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Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2000
History
xv, 384 p. ; 23 cm.
9780521621663, 9780521795449, 0521795443, 0521621666
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Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; Part I. Learning the Ways and Means: 2. An Arkansas traveler comes to Washington; 3. 'Where is the money coming from?'; 4. 'Taxation of whom and for what?'; 5. The legislative mills, 1958–61; 6. The postwar fiscal discourse; Part II. The Politics of Policy: 7. The road to tax reduction; 8. Bringing Medicare into the State; 9. The war on inflation; 10. Spending through taxes; 11. Expanding social security: inflation and social insurance, 1969–70; Part III. Conclusion: 12. Looking backward and forward.
Originally published: 1998