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Double Take: Unequal Taxation of Equals.(Book review)

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From: Journal of Accountancy
Date: 20071201
Author:Bonner, Paul

* Double Take: Unequal Taxation of Equals by Lester B. Snyder Vandeplas Publishing, 2007, 281 pp.

In the backward world envisioned 135 years ago by Samuel Butler in Erewhon, taxation is regressive, on the theory that a business fortune is evidence of society's esteem toward its holder. Rather than the social Darwinism that Butler parodied, how ever, America subsequently developed a progressive system, which is alive, if not well, nearly a century later.

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