Greedy Hand How Taxes Drive Americans Crazy and What to Do about It

Name: Greedy Hand How Taxes Drive Americans Crazy and What to Do about It
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ISBN: 9780375501326

ISBN-10: 0375501320

ISBN-13: 9780375501326

Edition: 1999

Authors: Amity Shlaes

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The Greedy Hand is an illuminating examination of the culture of tax and a persuasive call for reform, written by one of the nation's leading policy makers, Amity Shlaes of The Wall Street Journal. The father of the modern American state was an obscure Macy's department store executive named Beardsley Ruml. During World War II, he devised the plan for withholding taxes from your paycheck, thereby laying in place a system that allows the hand of government to reach into your wallet and take what it wants. Today, taxes make up more than a third of our economy, the highest level in history outside war. We live in the nation revolutionary father Thomas Paine foresaw when he…

Book details

List price: $22.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 2/16/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 255
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



The Greedy Hand


Your Clothes


Your Work


Your Marriage


Your House


Your Baby


Your School


Your Accountant


Your Success


Your Retirement


Your Death


Conclusion: Your Choice


Acknowledgments


Bibliography


Index