Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Tax Justice—The Uneasy Debate
Joseph J. Thorndike and Dennis J. Ventry, Jr.
1. Equity and the Case for Progressive Taxation
Richard A. Musgrave
2. Equity versus Efficiency and the U.S. Tax System in Historical Perspective
Dennis J. Ventry, Jr.
3. Economic History and the Analysis of "Soaking the Rich" in 20th-Century America
W. Elliot Brownlee
4. Hard Shells of Community
Tax Equity Debates within the National Council of Churches after World War II
Carolyn C. Jones
5. Endowment and Inequality
Daniel Shaviro
6. Why Proportionate Taxation?
Barbara H. Fried
7. The Limits of Tax Justice
The Struggle for Tax Justice in the States
David Brunori
8. Property Taxation
Fairness and Popularity, Perceptions and Reality
Joan M. Youngman
9. And Equal (Tax) Justice For All?
C. Eugene Steuerle
About the Editors
About the Contributors
Index
