Law, Politics, and the Rise of Progressive Taxation, 1877–1929
by
Ajay K. Mehrotra
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
At the turn of the twentieth century, the US system of public finance underwent a dramatic transformation. The late nineteenth-century regime of indirect, hidden, partisan, and regressive taxes was eclipsed in the early twentieth century by a direct, transparent, professionally administered, and progressive...