Taxing Choice
Subtitle: the Predatory Politics of Fiscal Discrimination
By: William Shughart II
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9781351291606
Subjects: Excise tax; Taxation; Taxe d'accise; Impôt; Aspect politique; Political aspects
Description: ""--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Chapter Introduction and Overview; title: part Part I: The Political Economy of Excise Taxation; title: chapter 1 The Economics of the Nanny State; title: chapter 2 Excise Taxes in Historical Perspective; title: chapter 3 Whiskey, Margarine, and Newspapers: A Tale of Three Taxes; title: part Part II: The Politics of Excise Taxation; title: chapter 4 Selective Excise Taxation from an Interest-Group Perspective; title: chapter 5 Overcoming Taxpayer Resistance by Taxing Choice and Earmarking Revenues; title: chapter 6 Taxing Choice to Fund Politically Correct Propaganda; title: chapter 7 Bureaucratic Incentives and theTransition from Taxes to Prohibition; title: part Part III: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Drugs; title: chapter 8 Prohibition: The Ultimate Tax; title: chapter 9 Predatory Public Finance and the Origins of the War on Drugs: 1984-1989; title: chapter 10 The Taxation of Alcohol and the Control of Social Costs; title: chapter 11 Excise Taxes, Social Costs, and the Consumption of Wine; title: chapter 12 Bordering on Chaos: Fiscal Federalism and Excise Taxes; title: part Part IV:Constitutional Liberties and Excise Taxation; title: chapter 13 Wealth Creation as a?Sin?; title: chapter 14 Gun Control, Strict Liability, and Excise Taxes; title: chapter 15 Civil Forfeiture as a Tax; title: chapter 16 Excise Taxation in the Rent-Seeking Society.