
Ever since Colonial times, Americans have been bedeviled by high taxes that seem to return little of material value to citizens. Taking a page from Thomas Paine's "Greedy Hand" manifesto, Amity Shlaes has written a provocative and fascinating book exposing the inequities of our present tax system, and offers concrete, coherent solutions to simplify our lives. Today, taxes make up more than a third...
Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Mariner Books (February 28, 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0156011522
ISBN-13: 978-0156011525
Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.8 x 8 inches
Amazon Rank: 2700382
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Most Americans do not like our current tax structure, and most in that camp recognize that the country is greatly overtaxed. In "The Greedy Hand," Amity Shlaes notes that the complexity of the system is one of its features that most riles Americans—...
nomy, the highest level in peacetime history. We truly live in the land Paine foresaw when he warned of government "thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry." This book is a cultural examination of the way taxes influence our behavior, and how they force us into an arbitrary system that punishes families and individual enterprise. Shlaes shows how so-called tax breaks do little to help families and how married women are unfairly taxed more. She uncovers the problems that engage and enrage us, proving that Social Security issues and school inadequacies are at heart tax problems. And she charts a course out of the madness of tax oppression, offering a number of solutions that will give each of us a fairer, simpler system. With compassion for Americans and their dreams, Shlaes makes the best case yet for rethinking our tax code.