The Greedy Hand: How Taxes Drive Americans Crazy and What to Do About It - Softcover

Shlaes, Amity

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0156011522 ISBN 13: 9780156011525

Publisher: Mariner Books, 2000

Synopsis

A lively, provocative call for tax reform describes the overwhelming influence of taxes on American society, explains how they have led to a system that punishes middleclass families, and discusses such topics as Social Security, women and taxes, the hidden dangers of family tax breaks, and more. Reprint.

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About the Author

Amity Shlaes is the youngest member of the Wall Street Journal's editorial board, where she is an editorialist on tax policy. Her writing has also been published in  Commentary and The New Yorker.  She is the author of Germany: The Empire Within.  A magna cum laude graduate of Yale University, she lives in New York City with her husband, Seth Lipsky, and their three children.

From the Inside Flap

eedy Hand is an illuminating examination of the culture of tax and a persuasive call for reform, written by one of the nation's leading policy makers, Amity Shlaes of The Wall Street Journal.
        
The father of the modern American state was an obscure Macy's department store executive named Beardsley Ruml.  During World War II, he devised the plan for withholding taxes from your paycheck, thereby laying in place a system that allows the hand of government to reach into your wallet and take what it wants.
        
Today, taxes make up more than a third of our economy, the highest level in history outside war.  We live in the nation revolutionary father Thomas Paine foresaw when he wrote of "the Greedy Hand of government thrusting itself into every corner of industry." This book is a cultural examination of the way taxes influence our behavior, how

Edition details

• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0156011522
• ISBN 13: 9780156011525
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256