Cover
Table of Contents
Foreword
Geoffrey Brennan
Preface
1. Taxation in Constitutional Perspective
2. Natural Government
3. Constraints on Base and Rate Structure
4. The Taxation of Commodities
5. Taxation through Time
6. Money Creation and Taxation
7. The Disposition of Public Revenues
8. The Domain of Politics
9. Open Economy, Federalism, and Taxing Authority
10. Toward Authentic Tax Reform
Epilogue
Selected Bibliography
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The Power to Tax: Analytical Foundations of a Fiscal Constitution

Geoffrey Brennan.
Brennan, Geoffrey and James M. Buchanan
(1919- )
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First Pub. Date
1980
Publisher
Indianapolis, IN: Liberty Fund, Inc.
Pub. Date
2000
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The text of this edition is copyright ©: 1980 Cambridge University Press. Foreword and coauthor note ©: 2000 Liberty Fund, Inc. Picture of James M. Buchanan and Geoffrey Brennan: File photo detail, courtesy Liberty Fund, Inc. James M. Buchanan and Geoffrey Brennan, Blacksburg, Virginia, 1989.
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The success of Proposition 13 in California was one of the top news stories of 1978, and many commentators interpreted this success as the first major step in a genuine "tax revolt." Politicians seeking either to attain or to maintain elective office were quick to accept such an interpretation, and the political rhetoric of the late 1970s suggested that the era of explosive governmental growth may have been coming to an end.... [From the Preface]

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