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Book SynopsisEnthralling, witty, and masterful,
Give and Take brings to light Canada’s surprisingly unruly tax history, showing the tax clashes and compromises that made Canadian democracy.
Trade ReviewGive and Take is amazingly well researched[...] -- Patricia E. Roy * Canadian Historical Review *
[Tillotson] writes in a light, accessible manner … [she] is skilful in using historical analysis to explain the past through a modern lens. -- Victor Rabinovitch, distinguished fellow in the School of Policy Studies at Queen's University * Canada's History *
…this is a path-breaking work that hopefully will lead to other investigations of Canadians’ love/hate relationship with the state, a relationship where taxes generally land in the hate department.
-- Alvin Finkel * Alberta Views *
Table of Contents1 Talking Tax
2 We, the Taxpayers
3 Our Conservative Tax Structure
4 Resistance in the Interwar Years
5 Taxation at the Edges of Citizenship
6 Honour, Confidence, and Federalism during the Depression
7 Warfare, Welfare, and the Mass Income Tax Payer
8 New Publics and the Tax Man in the 1950s
9 Poverty, Bureaucracy, and Taxes
10 Reform, Populism, and the Presence of the Past in the 1960s
11 Self-Interest, Community, and the Evolution of the Citizen-Taxpayer
Appendix: Tables
Notes; Bibliography; Index
