Univ of California Press
March 2011
On Sale: February 27, 2011
212 pages ISBN: 0520269675 EAN: 9780520269675 Kindle: B004NBZGIS Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List
This book looks at the way we tax the poor in the United
States, particularly in the American South, where poor
families are often subject to income taxes, and where
regressive sales taxes apply even to food for home
consumption. Katherine S. Newman and Rourke L. O’Brien argue
that these policies contribute in unrecognized ways to
poverty-related problems like obesity, early mortality, the
high school dropout rates, teen pregnancy, and crime. They
show how, decades before California’s passage of Proposition
13, many southern states implemented legislation that makes
it almost impossible to raise property or corporate taxes, a
pattern now growing in the western states. Taxing the Poor
demonstrates how sales taxes intended to replace the missing
revenue—taxes that at first glance appear fair—actually
punish the poor and exacerbate the very conditions that
drove them into poverty in the first place.
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