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Describes the overwhelming influence of taxes on American society and explains how they have led to a system that punishes middle-class families
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<b>Amity Shlaes</b> is the youngest member of the <i>Wall Street Journal</i>'s editorial board, where she is an editorialist on tax policy. Her writing has also been published in <i>Commentary</i> and <i>The New Yorker</i>. She is the author of<i> Germany: The Empire Within</i>. A magna cum laude graduate of Yale University, she lives in New York City with her husband, Seth Lipsky, and their three children.
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eedy Hand</b> is an illuminating examination of the culture of tax and a persuasive call for reform, written by one of the nation's leading policy makers, Amity Shlaes of<i> The Wall Street Journal</i>.<br> <br>The father of the modern American state was an obscure Macy's department store executive named Beardsley Ruml. During World War II, he devised the plan for withholding taxes from your paycheck, thereby laying in place a system that allows the hand of government to reach into your wallet and take what it wants.<br> <br>Today, taxes make up more than a third of our economy, the highest level in history outside war. We live in the nation revolutionary father Thomas Paine foresaw when he wrote of "the Greedy Hand of government thrusting itself into every corner of industry." This book is a cultural examination of the way taxes influence our behavior, how
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