Tax Expenditures and Social Policy in the United States
Edición de la obra The Hidden Welfare State
| Autor | Christopher Howard |
|---|---|
| Editorial | Princeton University Press |
| Fecha de publicación | 2001 |
| Lugar | Princeton |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 267 |
| Formato | [electronic resource] : |
| ISBN-13 | 9781400822416 |
| ISBN-10 | 1400822416 |
| OCLC | 709551178 |
| Número de Cutter |
H848hDespite costing hundreds of billions of dollars and subsidizing everything from homeownership and child care to health insurance, tax expenditures (commonly known as tax loopholes) have received little attention from those who study American government. This oversight has contributed to an incomplete and misleading portrait of U.S. social policy. Here Christopher Howard analyzes the "hidden" welfare state created by such programs as tax deductions for home mortgage interest and employer-provided retirement pensions, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and the Targeted Jobs Tax Credit. Basing his wor.