{"product_id":"read-my-lips-9780691191607","title":"Read My Lips","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Excellent. . . . Williamson's most important contribution is her insistence that taxes are crucial in defining notions of what it means to be a real, deserving, and politically engaged American citizen.\"\u003cb\u003e---Joseph Thorndike, \u003ci\u003eTax Notes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A Tea Party expert draws on fascinating interviews with 49 Americans--white, black, Asian and Hispanic, urban and rural, Republican and Democrat--on their views on taxation, from form-filling to government waste to loopholes, and neatly upends the view of US citizens as reluctant taxpayers.\"\u003cb\u003e---Karen Shook, \u003ci\u003eTimes Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eRead My Lips\u003c\/i\u003e is a useful corrective to the dire view of Americans as irrational and ill-informed antitax zealots. It also offers Democrats a useful insight: Maybe Republicans' perceived edge on taxation owes less to the popularity of their views than to Democrats’ own failure to marshal a civic commitment to taxes for liberal ends. Having identified the problem, Williamson may be pointing the way to a solution to the ugly politics of taxation.\"\u003cb\u003e---Josh Mound, \u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"One of the smartest books I've read in recent years is Vanessa Williamson’s \u003ci\u003eRead My Lips: Why Americans are Proud to Pay Taxes\u003c\/i\u003e. In it, she busts the myth that Americans are knee jerk anti-taxation, but rather finds that like people in most other countries, we have a problem with taxes only when we feel that somebody isn’t paying their fair share.\"\u003cb\u003e---Rana Faroohar and Edward Luce, \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The idea that the bulk of Americans hate to pay taxes has become a pervasive idea across the country and among lawmakers. Vanessa Williamson’s book debunks this myth and shows with in-depth research that most Americans see paying taxes a mark of good citizenship and that any resistance to taxation has more to do with the perception of unfairness in the system. \u003ci\u003eRead My Lips\u003c\/i\u003e is an insightful dive into how Americans truly relate to their tax system and a must read for understanding the tax debate.\"\u003cb\u003e---Aidan Davis, \u003ci\u003eJust Taxes Blog\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An inspired, engaging, and thought-provoking contribution to social policy, economic sociology, and our understanding of the relationship between the state and society.\"\u003cb\u003e---Cristobal Young, \u003ci\u003eContemporary Society\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403874181463,"sku":"9780691191607","price":19.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/read-my-lips-9780691191607","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}