The Limits of Symbolic Reform: The New Deal and Taxation, 19331939

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Cambridge University Press, 1984 - 308 頁
In The Limits of Symbolic Reform, Mark Leff examines the gap between politics and economics, between symbol and substance in the New Deal. The New Deal never lacked for controversy, and tax policy reliably aroused the fiercest of emotions. Franklin Roosevelt's celebrated tax reform proposals - presented amidst verbal barrages against 'economic royalists' and the 'unjust concentration of wealth and economic power' - signified almost nothing in terms of revenue. Cosmetic higher rates on upper-income brackets generated far less revenue than lower-profile New Deal taxes on agricultural products, liquor, and payrolls (through social security) that burdened low incomes. But while 'soak the rich' tax initiatives were economically inconsequential, they were politically crucial to the image of compassion and action projected by the New Deal. Leff's analysis clarifies the reform priorities and the balance of political and economic that produced this paradoxical New Deal tax machinery.

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Political Imagery and Financial Reality
1
Prelude to Reform The New Deal Tax System 19331935
9
Taxing the Forgotten Man
11
The Congressional Origins of SoaktheRich Taxation
48
One Part Revenue Two Parts Rhetoric The Reform Impulse in the Ascendant 19351937
91
The Paradox of Symbolic Reform Enacting a Wealth Tax without Sharing the Wealth
93
Before the Fall New Deal Tax Reform 19361937
169
New Deal Taxation under Siege 19371939
203
The Recession Cometh
205
New Deal Taxation and the Business Community 19371939
231
The Unkindest Cuts of All Tax Legislation in 1938 and 1939
255
Taxation Symbolic Politics and the New Deal Legacy
287
Index
294
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