Deficits, debt, and the new politics of tax policy

Machine generated contents note: 1. A brief history of federal taxation; 2. The stable era

World War II to the 1960s; 3. Destabilizing tax policy

Vietnam and the 1970s; 4. The Reagan strategy

balancing low; 5. The Clinton strategy

balancing high; 6. Bush, Obama, and fiscal deadlock; 7. Reconnecting taxes and budgets.