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The triumph of injustice : how the rich dodge taxes and how to make them pay / Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Edition: First editionDescription: xvi, 232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1324002727
  • 9781324002727
  • 9780393531732
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HJ4653.R6 S2347 2019
Contents:
Introduction: reinventing fiscal democracy -- Income and taxes in America -- From Boston to Richmond -- How injustice triumphs -- Welcome to Bermuland -- Spiral -- How to stop the spiral -- Taxing the rich -- Beyond Laffer -- A world of possiblity -- Conclusion: tax justice now
Summary: "A searing examination of a key driver of American inequality-our tax system. Even as they became fabulously wealthy, the rich have seen their taxes collapse to levels last seen in the 1920s. Meanwhile, working-class Americans have been asked to pay more. The Triumph of Injustice is a forensic investigation into this dramatic transformation. Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, economists who revolutionized the study of inequality, demonstrate how the super-rich pay a lower tax rate than everybody else. In crystalline prose, they dissect the deliberate choices and the sins of indecision that have fueled this trend: the gradual exemption of capital owners; the surge of a new tax-avoidance industry; and, most critically, tax competition between nations. It is not too late to change course. Instead of competition, we could choose cooperation, finding ways to create a tax regime that serves universal, democratic ends. The Triumph of Injustice offers a visionary and practical reinvention of taxes for that globalized world"-- Provided by the publisher
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Book Book NMC Library Stacks HJ4653 .R6 S2347 2019 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001461945

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-229)

Introduction: reinventing fiscal democracy -- Income and taxes in America -- From Boston to Richmond -- How injustice triumphs -- Welcome to Bermuland -- Spiral -- How to stop the spiral -- Taxing the rich -- Beyond Laffer -- A world of possiblity -- Conclusion: tax justice now

"A searing examination of a key driver of American inequality-our tax system. Even as they became fabulously wealthy, the rich have seen their taxes collapse to levels last seen in the 1920s. Meanwhile, working-class Americans have been asked to pay more. The Triumph of Injustice is a forensic investigation into this dramatic transformation. Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, economists who revolutionized the study of inequality, demonstrate how the super-rich pay a lower tax rate than everybody else. In crystalline prose, they dissect the deliberate choices and the sins of indecision that have fueled this trend: the gradual exemption of capital owners; the surge of a new tax-avoidance industry; and, most critically, tax competition between nations. It is not too late to change course. Instead of competition, we could choose cooperation, finding ways to create a tax regime that serves universal, democratic ends. The Triumph of Injustice offers a visionary and practical reinvention of taxes for that globalized world"-- Provided by the publisher

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