Episode 401: The Revolutionary Power of Taxation
On this episode of Diverse Voices Book Review, host Hopeton Hay speaks with Vanessa S. Williamson, author of The Price of Democracy: The Revolutionary Power of Taxation in American History. Their wide-ranging conversation revisits the Boston Tea Party as a protest against a corporate tax break, explores taxation as a tool for Black freedom during Reconstruction, and examines how Franklin D. Roosevelt connected paying taxes with civic duty during World War II.
Vanessa Williamson is a senior fellow in Governance Studies at Brookings, and a senior fellow at the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center…
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