The Power to Destroy: How the Antitax Movement Hijacked America

by Michael J. Graetz

How the antitax fringe went mainstream--and now threatens America's future

The postwar United States enjoyed large, widely distributed economic rewards--and most Americans accepted that taxes were a reasonable price to pay for living in a society of shared prosperity. Then in 1978 California enacted Proposition 13, a property tax cap that Ronald Reagan hailed as a "second American Revolution," setting off an antitax, antigovernment...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691225540
• ISBN13: 9780691225548
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.3" x 9.3"