The Terrific Engine: Income Taxation and the Modernization of the Canadian Political Imaginary - Tapa blanda

Tough, David

 
9780774836784: The Terrific Engine: Income Taxation and the Modernization of the Canadian Political Imaginary
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ISBN 10: 0774836784 ISBN 13: 9780774836784
Editorial: University of British Columbia Press, 2019

Sinopsis

What do we mean by left wing or right wing? People started using the language of a political spectrum when early twentieth-century political parties began to distinguish their platforms by offering different approaches to income distribution.

The Terrific Engine examines how the powerful tool of income taxation transformed the way people talk and think about politics in Canada. Drawing on heated debates that demonstrated the imaginative power of income taxation, David Tough traces the modernization of political language from the 1911 election through the Second World War.

Countering a strongly held myth that income taxation was imposed on a reluctant public, Tough argues that its introduction is in fact a story of democracy. People first demanded that this new form of taxation replace existing ones, and then that it be used to address income inequality. And, in establishing a clear basis for party differences, income taxation made elections significantly more democratic.

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David Tough teaches in the School for the Study of Canada at Trent University. He is a historian of Canadian politics and of the rhetoric of inequality in twentieth-century Canada and has written numerous articles on Canadian politics for peer-reviewed publications.

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Editorial
University of British Columbia Press
Año de publicación
2019
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0774836784
ISBN 13 
9780774836784
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Número de páginas
200
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