Who's the Fairest of Them All? · The Truth About Opportunity, Taxes, and Wealth in America by Moore, Stephen -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page CONTENTS Foreword by Glenn Hubbard CHAPTER 1: The Poverty of Equality CHAPTER 2: How Do We Create a Fair Society?

Growth and Fairness Real Fairness

CHAPTER 3: What Happened to the American Dream?

Trends in Income and Wealth Assessing the Winners and Losers The Middle Class Boom Measuring Economic Conditions of the Poor The Myth of the Shrinking Middle Class The Trends in Consumption Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous Income Gains of Blacks and Women The Great Equalizer: Income Mobility What Explains Income Mobility? Income Mobility Across Generations What We Know About the Super Rich Education and Wealth Obama: The Income Equalizer How Free Markets Create Affluence

CHAPTER 4: Who Really Pays the Taxes in America?

Tax Rates and Tax Revenues The Bush Tax Cuts and Revenues The Zero Tax Americans Tax Fairness in the United States and Other Industrial Nations Taxes and the Super Rich High Tax Rates and Small Businesses Fairness and the Obama Policies The 2013 Tax Time Bomb Summing Up

CHAPTER 5: Is a 76 Percent Tax Rate in America’s Future?

Gains and Losses The Shareholder Tax States of Taxation Beware the Class Warriors Does Government Spending Create Jobs? Ask Greece and Washington

CHAPTER 6: Soak the Rich with Lower Tax Rates

What History Teaches Us about the Laffer Curve The Debate Rages On

CHAPTER 7: Why Flat Is Fair

The Hong Kong Tax Miracle What Should a Fair Tax Code Do? What’s Fair and What Isn’t Flatten It What Is the Flat Tax Rate? Abolish the Corporate Tax Flat, Fair, and Simple

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