Ruth Braunstein: My Tax Dollars
My Tax Dollars
Buch
- The Morality of Taxpaying in America
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EUR 34,56*
- Princeton University Press, 04/2025
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9780691254999
- Bestellnummer: 11883806
- Umfang: 224 Seiten
- Erscheinungstermin: 15.4.2025
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Klappentext
When the mundane reality of paying taxes takes on moral significanceIn My Tax Dollars, Ruth Braunstein maps the contested moral landscape in which Americans experience and make sense of the tax system. Braunstein tells the stories of Americans who view taxpaying as more than a mundane chore: antigovernment tax defiers who challenge the legitimacy of the tax system, antiwar activists who resist the use of their taxes to fund war, antiabortion activists against "taxpayer funded abortions," and a diverse group of people who promote taxpaying as a moral good. Though taxpaying is often portrayed as dull and technical, exposure to collective rituals, civic education, propaganda, and protest transforms the practice for many Americans into either a sacred rite of citizenship or a profane threat to what they hold dear. These sacred and profane meanings can apply to the act of taxpaying itself or to the specific uses of tax dollars. Despite intense disagreement about these meanings, politically diverse Americans engaged in both taxpaying and tax resistance valorize the individual taxpayer and "my tax dollars."Braunstein explores the profound implications of this meaning making for tax consent, the legitimacy of the tax system, and citizens' broader understandings of their political relationships. Going beyond the usual focus on tax policy, Braunstein's innovative view of taxation through the lens of cultural sociology shows how citizens in value-diverse societies coalesce around shared visions of the sacred and fears of the profane. Ruth Braunstein
My Tax Dollars
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