Take Back the Center: Progressive Taxation for a New Progressive Agenda

by Peter S. Wenz

Book Overview

Reality-based arguments against right-wing fantasies: the case for reducing income inequality, rebuilding our infrastructure, investing in education, and putting people back to work. Midcentury America was governed from the center, a bipartisan consensus of politicians and public opinion that supported government spending on education, the construction of a vast network of interstate highways, healthcare for senior citizens, and environmental protection...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262017881
• ISBN13: 9780262017886
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher