State, tax politics, and the limits of american liberalism. Professor michael more looks at tax policy and American Attitudes towards taxes from the end of the new deal, to the 1986 tax reform act. This top is warning the series with scholars who used records in the National Archives center for legislative archives for the research. The center senate hosted this amendment right of the video. Thank you for attending todays researcher top historian at the center for a legislative archive sponsor of the series. Weve had a very full program this year, showcasing some of the Significant Research that is still being, done in the house records. Todays top is the eighth of this calendar, near and we have one more november, then we will hear from Charles Stewart Political Science professor at mit, longtime friend and supporter. Of the center. Who is talk about his coauthor book electing the senate, in direct democracy before the 17th amendment. By the prince in your city press, it will be a pre
Pest pest test. Test. Test. Test. To our system of taxation and its the modern richard burr is well known, he says that its the custom house was the locusts of tax power in the 19th century, its the modern corporation that has become our custom house today. Its the information that the corporations contain that allows us to do all the kind of Third Party Withholding and other things that leads to this kind of change in political arrangements. Now i used up a lot of my time. I want to conclude, though, a couple of slides on a importance of constitutional law. The 16th amendment allows for the creation of taxes in the response to the pollock case which strikes down the 1894. It was, again, here i found some terrific information. Theres Important Role that the new york senator and actually drafting. So richard and i were talking earlier how important it was to demonstrate to grad students. Junior scholars about what the archives can tell you. I spent several weeks looking for a lot of pap
1877 to 1929. He explains how and why the United States shifted from generating most of its revenue from regressive consumption tax toss a more direct and progressive tax on North Carolina with the passage of the 16th amendment. The National Archives Center Hosted this event in december 2014. Into. Netanyahu for attending Todays Researcher talk, itch richard mccauley, we host this noontime series. Todays talk is the last in 2014, a year when weve been treated to some splendid presentations by some of the centers most significant researchers. That said, we end the year with a bang by hosting todays guest, Ajay Mehrotra who is discuss his significant and timely book making the modern american if i say ral state, law, politics and the rise of progressive taxation 1877 to 1929 published by Cambridge University press. We will resume this talk these talks on january 15 when we host Rebecca Edwards professor of history and Department Chair at vassar college. Her talk is titled sex on the fron
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From the state of virginia. Find a full Television Schedule online at booktv. Org or consult your program guide. Will come to our Cato Institute p. J. Orourke. We will take questions from the program and you can submit them at the Cato Institute website, facebook, twitter or youtube and use the cato evidence. We have many distinguished scholars at the Cato Institute constitutional studies, Foreign Policy, education and so on but perhaps our most distinguished scholar, at least if we can agree, it depends on what the meaning of distinguished is, our Research Fellow, p. J. Orourke. I would say ive sort of grown up with p. J. When i was in college college, National Lampoon which he edited and i remember quite a few funny bits from National Lampoon but i cant quote them because they all involve drug use, ethnic stereotypes are gender relations which are all forbidden now. He moved on to Rolling Stone where hes Foreign Affairs desk chief which is totally cool because they paid him to travel