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Susannah Camic

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Everything Is Tax: Evaluating The Structural Transformation Of U.S. Policymaking, Susannah Camic Feb 2012

Everything Is Tax: Evaluating The Structural Transformation Of U.S. Policymaking, Susannah Camic

Susannah Camic

In contrast to major legislative reform packages in the 20th century, the Affordable Care Act of 2010 took the form of a tax bill. Although this legislation is the first massive social and regulatory overhaul completed through the tax code, in the past twenty-five years the U.S. Congress and Presidential administrations have substantially increased their use of tax law for non-revenue-raising purposes. Growing reliance on the tax code represents a structural transformation of how Congress and Presidential administrations have come to approach lawmaking goals. This transformation defies the near-consensus of previous tax scholarship, which, following Stanley Surrey, disapproves of embedding …


Everything Is Tax: Evaluating The Structural Transformation Of U.S. Policymaking, Susannah Camic Feb 2012

Everything Is Tax: Evaluating The Structural Transformation Of U.S. Policymaking, Susannah Camic

Susannah Camic

In contrast to major legislative reform packages in the 20th century, the Affordable Care Act of 2010 took the form of a tax bill. Although this legislation is the first massive social and regulatory overhaul completed through the tax code, in the past twenty-five years the U.S. Congress and Presidential administrations have substantially increased their use of tax law for non-revenue-raising purposes. Growing reliance on the tax code represents a structural transformation of how Congress and Presidential administrations have come to approach lawmaking goals. This transformation defies the near-consensus of previous tax scholarship, which, following Stanley Surrey, disapproves of embedding …


Everything Is Tax: Evaluating The Structural Transformation Of U.S. Policymaking, Susannah Camic Feb 2012

Everything Is Tax: Evaluating The Structural Transformation Of U.S. Policymaking, Susannah Camic

Susannah Camic

In contrast to major legislative reform packages in the 20th century, the Affordable Care Act of 2010 took the form of a tax bill. Although this legislation is the first massive social and regulatory overhaul completed through the tax code, in the past twenty-five years the U.S. Congress and Presidential administrations have substantially increased their use of tax law for non-revenue-raising purposes. Growing reliance on the tax code represents a structural transformation of how Congress and Presidential administrations have come to approach lawmaking goals. This transformation defies the near-consensus of previous tax scholarship, which, following Stanley Surrey, disapproves of embedding …