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Carrie Manning’s illuminating book examines how policies to limit taxation at state and local levels in the US have direct and lasting consequences for equity, accountability, and ultimately for democracy. Tax structures embed and reproduce an implicit social contract between government and citizens, creating path-dependent outcomes that produce unintended consequences which are rarely traced back to state and local revenue models. This book combines historical American political development with the study of state formation. It provides a clear-eyed investigation into the past, present, and future of the social contract between America’s local governments and citizens.

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1. Taxes and the Social Contract 2. States, Taxes, and the Polities They Create 3. The US Tax State and the Limited Social Contract 4. Tax and Expenditure Limitations vs. an Expanding Social Contract 5. Implications of the Reliance on Fines and Fees 6. Taxing Democracy: Conclusions

Taxing Democracy: Local Taxation and the Social

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      Publisher Bristol University Press
      Published 20 April 2023
      ISBN-13 9781529215564
      978-1529215564
      ISBN-10 1529215560
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      Public administration / Public policy Regional, state and local government policies

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Carrie Manning’s illuminating book examines how policies to limit taxation at state and local levels in the US have direct and lasting consequences for equity, accountability, and ultimately for democracy. Tax structures embed and reproduce an implicit social contract between government and citizens, creating path-dependent outcomes that produce unintended consequences which are rarely traced back to state and local revenue models. This book combines historical American political development with the study of state formation. It provides a clear-eyed investigation into the past, present, and future of the social contract between America’s local governments and citizens.

      Table of Contents
      1. Taxes and the Social Contract 2. States, Taxes, and the Polities They Create 3. The US Tax State and the Limited Social Contract 4. Tax and Expenditure Limitations vs. an Expanding Social Contract 5. Implications of the Reliance on Fines and Fees 6. Taxing Democracy: Conclusions

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