Tearing out the Income Tax by the (Grass)Roots

Abstract

Rich People’s Movements: Grassroots Campaigns to Untax the One Percent.
By Isaac William Martin
New York: Oxford University Press. 2013.
I. INTRODUCTION ............................................................................. 649
II. A CENTURY OF RICH PEOPLE’S ANTI-TAX MOVEMENTS ......... 651
III. EXPLAINING THE SUPPORT OF THE NON-RICH .......................... 656
IV. BUT WHAT ABOUT THE FLAT TAX AND THE FAIRTAX? ............ 661
V. THE RHETORIC OF RICH PEOPLE’S ANTI-TAX MOVEMENTS: PARANOID AND NON-PARANOID STYLES .................................... 665
VI. CONCLUSION ................................................................................. 672