Making the modern American fiscal state : law, politics, and the rise of progressive taxation, 1877-1929 / Ajay K. Mehrotra, Indiana University.

At the turn of the twentieth century, the US system of public finance underwent a dramatic transformation. The late nineteenth-century regime of indirect, hidden, partisan, and regressive taxes was eclipsed in the early twentieth century by a direct, transparent, professionally administered, and pro...

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