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050 00 $aHJ257.3$b.C37 2009
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100 1 $aCarbone, Leslie.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n00100388
245 10 $aSlaying leviathan :$bthe moral case for tax reform /$cLeslie Carbone.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aWashington, D.C. :$bPotomac Books, Inc.,$c[2009], ©2009.
300 $axiii, 191 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $g1.$tA Vision for Fiscal Reform -- $g2.$tTaxes and Revolution -- $g3.$tA Newborn Nation -- $g4.$tEarly Quarrels -- $g5.$tThe Income Tax versus the Constitution -- $g6.$tThe Century of Taxes -- $g7.$tTaxes in the Twenty-First Century -- $g8.$tDestroying Justice in the Name of Fairness -- $g9.$tTaxing Virtue -- $g10.$tWhere Taxpayers' Money Goes: The Answer Nobody Knows -- $g11.$tGradual and Silent Encroachments -- $g12.$tBail-Out Nation -- $g13.$tThe Moral Hazard of Spreading the Wealth -- $g14.$tPrinciples of Sound Fiscal Reform -- $g15.$tTax Reform Plans -- $g16.$tConclusion.
520 1 $a"In Slaying Leviathan, Leslie Carbone argues that, since the early twentieth century, U.S. tax policy has mitigated the natural economic results of both virtue and vice. By creating incentives and disincentives that overturn the natural consequences of both virtue and vice, the federal government has perverted its own proper function as an enforcer of rights and instrument of justice and become part of the problem that it exists to correct-fostering social breakdown while dampening economic prosperity." "Slaying Leviathan envisions an approach to tax policy rooted in natural justice. To achieve this goal, Carbone first traces the historical evolution of U.S. tax policy, from the 1765 Stamp Act to the 1997 tax cut. She then assesses the current American tax burden and former president George W. Bush's tax cuts and explores the fundamental problems with U.S. tax policy. After providing a historical analysis of federal spending and of expanding governmental expectations, she offers a set of over-arching principles and instructions on how to apply them to tax policy proposals."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aFiscal policy$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103784
650 0 $aTaxation$zUnited States$xHistory.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010115630
852 00 $boff,bus$hHJ257.3$i.C37 2009