The Hidden Welfare State: Tax Expenditures and Social Policy in the United States
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Despite costing hundreds of billions of dollars and subsidizing everything from homeownership and child care to health insurance, tax expenditures (commonly known as tax loopholes) have received little attention from those who study American government. This oversight has contributed to an incomplete and misleading portrait of U.S. social policy. Here Christopher Howard analyzes the "hidden" welfare state created by such programs as tax deductions...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:069100529X
ISBN13:9780691005294
Release Date:February 1999
Publisher:Princeton University Press
Length:272 Pages
Weight:1.00 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"
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The Hudden Welfare State- Little Known Social Welfare Policies
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An outstanding coverage of the use of tax deductions as an alternative to direct government entitlements. Includes the history of such deductions in the United States from the early twentieth century to the present
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