By: Sal Frisco Taxation & Democracy by Sven Steinmo "The politics of taxation is one of the most important policy concerns in the modern industrial state; yet we know very little about it," author Sven Steinmo states at the opening of Taxation & Democracy, a publication detailing the politics and development of tax systems of the United States, Great Britain and Sweden. The three nations discussed are prime examples of "industrial democracies," and Steinmo looks at each in comparative fashion, showing many differences but more abundantly the similarities between the three. In his introductory chapter, Steinmo discusses how taxes are looked upon by us. "Indeed, not only do we know little about tax policy, but what we think we know is often wrong." As an example, he states that it is commonly assumed that the U.S. and Great Britain have had much more progressive tax ....

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