Description
Book SynopsisThe Terrific Engine tells the story of how income taxation effected a profound transformation in the way people talk and think about politics in Canada, and of the energy Canadians invested in taxation's political possibilities.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction: A Political History of Possibility
Part 1: The People’s Enlightenment and the Destruction of the Two-Party System
1 A Clear Line? The Great Deception and the Farmers’ Critique of the Tariff , 1910–11
2 The Brink of the Abyss: The “Conscription of Wealth” and the Party System, 1917–19
Part 2: The Citizenship of Contribution and the Construction of the Modern Political Imaginary
3 The Curve of Progressivity: “Fiscal Need” and the Constitution, 1921–39
4 A Modern Measure? The Income Tax Sublime and the Left–Right Spectrum, 1940–45
Conclusion: Income Taxation, Democracy, and the Modern Political Imaginary
Notes; Bibliography; Index
