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In today's public climate of recognized and growing inequality, why are there not greater efforts to tax the rich? In this wide-ranging and provocative reserve, Kenneth Scheve and David Stasavage ask when and just why countries tax their wealthiest citizens - and their answers may delight you. Taxing the Rich pulls on unparalleled data from 20 countries over the last two ages to supply the broadest & most in-depth history of intensifying taxation available. Scheve and Stasavage explore the intellectual and political debates surrounding the taxation of the prosperous while also providing the most detailed examination to date of when fees have been levied against the rich and when they haven't. Fairness in debates about taxing the abundant has depended on different views of what this means to treat people as equals and whether taxing the abundant advancements or undermines this norm. Scheve and Stasavage dispute that governments don't tax the rich because inequality is high or increasing - they actually it when people believe that such fees compensate for the state unfairly privileging the prosperous. Progressive taxation noticed its heyday in the 20th hundred years, when compensatory arguments for taxing the abundant centered on unequal sacrifice in mass warfare. Today, as technology provides surge to wars of more limited mobilization, such arguments are no longer persuasive. Taxing the Rich shows how the future of taxes reform will rely upon whether political and economical conditions allow for new compensatory arguments to be made.
