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Greedy Hand : How Taxes Drive Americans Crazy and What to Do about It by Amity Shlaes (2000, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

ISBN-100156011522

ISBN-139780156011525

eBay Product ID (ePID)1647838

Product Key Features

Book TitleGreedy Hand : How Taxes Drive Americans Crazy and What to Do about It

Number of Pages288 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2000

TopicTaxation / General

GenreBusiness & Economics

AuthorAmity Shlaes

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight10.9 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.3 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN99-056470

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition21

Reviews"Ms. Shlaes has provided a thoughtful overview of the system's many contradictions and inequities. She defines the debate over what we ought to do and gets you thinking constructively about the problems she identifies."-The New York Times "In far less time than the IRS says it takes to file the short form, you can read The Greedy Hand and finally understand just why taxes drive you crazy, or should. . . . You won't find a better tour of our country's arcane tax system."-USA Today "Succeeds brilliantly at showing how our present approach just doesn't cut it."-San Francisco Chronicle "Succinctly describes a bad situation. Let's hope our politicians read it."-The Financial Times

Dewey Decimal336.2/00973

SynopsisEver since Colonial times, Americans have been bedeviled by high taxes that seem to return little of material value to citizens. Taking a page from Thomas Paine's "Greedy Hand" manifesto, Amity Shlaes has written a provocative and fascinating book exposing the inequities of our present tax system, and offers concrete, coherent solutions to simplify our lives. Today, taxes make up more than a third of our economy, the highest level in peacetime history. We truly live in the land Paine foresaw when he warned of government "thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry." This book is a cultural examination of the way taxes influence our behavior, and how they force us into an arbitrary system that punishes families and individual enterprise. Shlaes shows how so-called tax breaks do little to help families and how married women are unfairly taxed more. She uncovers the problems that engage and enrage us, proving that Social Security issues and school inadequacies are atheart tax problems. And she charts a course out of the madness of tax oppression, offering a number of solutions that will give each of us a fairer, simpler system. With compassion for Americans and their dreams, Shlaes makes the best case yet for rethinking our tax code.

LC Classification NumberHJ2362.S54 2000