Taxing 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.
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"[Zelizer's] book is a masterly account of politics and policy that combines historical research, institutional and cultural analysis of policy communities, and congressional scholarship." Perspectives on Political Science
"its author is opinionated without being polemical, deftly exposing the inadequacy of the "end of reform" approach to postwar American history and offering an alternative model that is highly sophisticated and thoroughly convincing... Zelizer combines the disciplines of history and political science in ways that suggest a bright future for the emerging subdiscipline of policy history." American Historical Review.
"its author is opinionated without being polemical, deftly exposing the inadequacy of the "end of reform" approach to postwar American history and offering an alternative model that is highly sophisticated and thoroughly convincing... Zelizer combines the disciplines of history and political science in ways that suggest a bright future for the emerging subdiscipline of policy history." American Historical Review.
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Taxing 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.
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Julian E. Zelizer is Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton University. He is the author and editor of numerous books on U.S. political history and a well-known commentator in the media.
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When Representative William Oldfield (D-AK) visited his district during the 1910s, he frequently dined with local political and business leaders. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
actuarial cost estimates, tax policy community, fiscal discourse, permanent rate reduction, tax expenditure budget, decentralized committee system, tax community, manipulation faction, contributory social insurance, actuarial surplus, foreign tax havens, legislative mills, macroeconomic fiscal policy, tax lobbyist, tax freeze, actuarial soundness, aforementioned documents, separate trust fund, federal tax structure, payroll tax revenue, hospital insurance trust fund, wage base, mass tax, easy finance, dividend credit Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Wilbur Mills, Wilbur Cohen, House Committee, Stanley Surrey, Lawrence O'Brien, Lyndon Johnson, United States, White House Central Files, House of Representatives, Robert Myers, Oral History Interview Collection, World War, Henry Fowler, Henry Hall Wilson, Congressional Record, Robert Ball, Advisory Council, Cambridge University Press, Subject Files, Walter Heller, New Deal, Office of Tax Policy, Economic Report, Norman Ture New!
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actuarial cost estimates, tax policy community, fiscal discourse, permanent rate reduction, tax expenditure budget, decentralized committee system, tax community, manipulation faction, contributory social insurance, actuarial surplus, foreign tax havens, legislative mills, macroeconomic fiscal policy, tax lobbyist, tax freeze, actuarial soundness, aforementioned documents, separate trust fund, federal tax structure, payroll tax revenue, hospital insurance trust fund, wage base, mass tax, easy finance, dividend credit Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Wilbur Mills, Wilbur Cohen, House Committee, Stanley Surrey, Lawrence O'Brien, Lyndon Johnson, United States, White House Central Files, House of Representatives, Robert Myers, Oral History Interview Collection, World War, Henry Fowler, Henry Hall Wilson, Congressional Record, Robert Ball, Advisory Council, Cambridge University Press, Subject Files, Walter Heller, New Deal, Office of Tax Policy, Economic Report, Norman Ture New!
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- The Limits of Symbolic Reform: The New Deal and Taxation, 19331939 by Mark H. Leff on 4 pages
- The Color of Welfare: How Racism Undermined the War on Poverty by Jill Quadagno on 4 pages
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