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Category : Public welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Category : Public welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Author: United States. Social and Rehabilitation Service. Division of Finance
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Category : Public welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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Author: United States. Congressional Budget Office
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Category : Economic assistance, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Author: Ida Craven Merriam
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Category : Public welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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Author: United States. Social Security Administration. Office of Research and Statistics
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Category : Federal aid to public welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Author: United States. Social and Rehabilitation Service. Division of Finance
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Category : Public welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Author: William Kaufman
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Languages : en
Pages : 3
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Author: United States. Advisory Council on Public Assistance
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Category : Public welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Public Assistance and Unemployment Compensation
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Category : Budget
Languages : en
Pages : 148
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Author: Christopher G. Faricy
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
ISBN: 1610449045
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 170
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Despite high levels of inequality and wage stagnation over several decades, the United States has done relatively little to address these problems—at least in part due to public opinion, which remains highly influential in determining the size and scope of social welfare programs that provide direct benefits to retirees, unemployed workers or poor families. On the other hand, social tax expenditures—or tax subsidies that help citizens pay for expenses such as health insurance or the cost of college and invest in retirement plans—have been widely and successfully implemented, and they now comprise nearly 40 percent of the spending of the American social welfare state. In The Other Side of the Coin, political scientists Christopher Ellis and Christopher Faricy examine public opinion towards social tax expenditures—the other side of the American social welfare state—and their potential to expand support for such social investment. Tax expenditures seek to accomplish many of the goals of direct government expenditures, but they distribute money indirectly, through tax refunds or reductions in taxable income, rather than direct payments on goods and services or benefits. They tend to privilege market-based solutions to social problems such as employer-based tax subsidies for purchasing health insurance versus government-provided health insurance. Drawing on nationally representative surveys and survey experiments, Ellis and Faricy show that social welfare policies designed as tax expenditures, as opposed to direct spending on social welfare programs, are widely popular with the general public. Contrary to previous research suggesting that recipients of these subsidies are often unaware of indirect government aid—sometimes called “the hidden welfare state”—Ellis and Faricy find that citizens are well aware of them and act in their economic self-interest in supporting tax breaks for social welfare purposes. The authors find that many people view the beneficiaries of social tax expenditures to be more deserving of government aid than recipients of direct public social programs, indicating that how government benefits are delivered affects people’s views of recipients’ worthiness. Importantly, tax expenditures are more likely to appeal to citizens with anti-government attitudes, low levels of trust in government, or racial prejudices. As a result, social spending conducted through the tax code is likely to be far more popular than direct government spending on public programs that have the same goals. The first empirical examination of the broad popularity of tax expenditures, The Other Side of the Coin provides compelling insights into constructing a politically feasible—and potentially bipartisan—way to expand the scope of the American welfare state.
