02302cam a2200313Mi 4500 on1102467622 OCoLC ta 210202r20202019nyua b 001 0 eng d 0393531732 (pbk.) 9780393531732 (pbk.) (OCoLC)1102467622 HJ4653.R6 S249 2020 Saez, Emmanuel. The triumph of injustice : how the rich dodge taxes and how to make them pay / Emmanual Saez and Gabriel Zucman. New York : W.W. Norton, 2020. xx, 262 p. : ill. Reprint. Originally published: 2019. Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction: reinventing fiscal democracy -- Income and taxes in America -- From Boston to Richmond -- How injustice triumphs -- Welcome to Bermuland -- Spiral -- How to stop the spiral -- Taxing the rich -- Beyond Laffer -- A world of possiblity -- Conclusion: tax justice now. A searing examination of a key driver of American inequality-our tax system. Even as they became fabulously wealthy, the rich have seen their taxes collapse to levels last seen in the 1920s. Meanwhile, working-class Americans have been asked to pay more. The Triumph of Injustice is a forensic investigation into this dramatic transformation. Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, economists who revolutionized the study of inequality, demonstrate how the super-rich pay a lower tax rate than everybody else. In crystalline prose, they dissect the deliberate choices and the sins of indecision that have fueled this trend: the gradual exemption of capital owners; the surge of a new tax-avoidance industry; and, most critically, tax competition between nations. It is not too late to change course. Instead of competition, we could choose cooperation, finding ways to create a tax regime that serves universal, democratic ends. The Triumph of Injustice offers a visionary and practical reinvention of taxes for that globalized world. Rich people Taxation United States. Tax incidence United States. Income distribution United States. Taxation United States. Equality United States. Zucman, Gabriel. lcc BK 0 0 0 0 PNLIB PNLIB GEN 2021-06-17 HJ4653.R6 S249 2020 PNLIB21060618 2021-06-17 2021-06-17 BK 804 804