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How the Great American Tax Revolt Crossed the Atlantic

Part of: Take Three: Taxes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2018

Isaac William Martin
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Keywords

Post-1945Conservatism and the RightPolicymaking
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Take Three: Taxes
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Modern American History , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , March 2019 , pp. 107 - 110
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2018. Published by Cambridge University Press 

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Footnotes

An earlier version of this paper was presented at the conference on “Britain and America's Special Relationship: Myth, Reality, or Anachronism,” UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies, Feb. 13, 2014. The author thanks Paul Pierson, Revan Tranter, Stephen Tuck, and Terri Bimes for comments on an earlier draft. The “Great American Tax Revolt” is due to Lester A. Sobel, The Great American Tax Revolt (New York, 1979).

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