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Special Interests and the Adoption of the Income Tax in the United States

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  • Baack, Bennett D.
  • Ray, Edward John

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Perhaps no single element involved with the rapid assumption of economic power by the federal government was more important than the passage of the income tax, the means by which the increasing role of government was financed. We explain the political and economic interests that came together to successfully pass the income tax, and we provide extensive empirical evidence regarding the determinants of the passage of the Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

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  • Baack, Bennett D. & Ray, Edward John, 1985. "Special Interests and the Adoption of the Income Tax in the United States," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 45(3), pages 607-625, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:jechis:v:45:y:1985:i:03:p:607-625_03
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    1. Joshua Hall & Donald Lacombe & Maria Tackett, 2020. "Income Tax Adoption and Spatial Diffusion," Atlantic Economic Journal, Springer;International Atlantic Economic Society, vol. 48(2), pages 185-193, June.
    2. Hugh Rockoff, 2008. "Great Fortunes of the Gilded Age," NBER Working Papers 14555, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

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