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Author
Publisher
Regnery History
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
George Washington had Alexander Hamilton. Thomas Jefferson had Albert Gallatin.
From internationally known tax expert and former Supreme Court law clerk Gregory May comes this long overdue biography of the remarkable immigrant who launched the fiscal policies that shaped the early Republic and the future of American politics. Not Alexander Hamilton—-Albert Gallatin. To this day, the fight over fiscal policy lies at the center of...
From internationally known tax expert and former Supreme Court law clerk Gregory May comes this long overdue biography of the remarkable immigrant who launched the fiscal policies that shaped the early Republic and the future of American politics. Not Alexander Hamilton—-Albert Gallatin. To this day, the fight over fiscal policy lies at the center of...
Author
Pub. Date
[1961]
Language
English
Description
In The Power of the Purse, E. James Ferguson examines the intricate financial history of the American Revolution and the Confederation and connects it to political and constitutional developments in the period. Whether states or Congress should pay the debts of the Revolution and collect the taxes was a pivotal question whose solution would largely determine the country's progress toward national union. Ultimately, says Ferguson, the Revolutionary...
Author
Series
Discovering America volume 5
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Recent movements such as the Tea Party and anti-tax "constitutional conservatism" lay claim to the finance and taxation ideas of America's founders, but how much do we really know about the dramatic clashes over finance and economics that marked the founding of America? Dissenting from both right-wing claims and certain liberal preconceptions, Founding Finance brings to life the violent conflicts over economics, class, and finance that played directly,...
Author
Publisher
Threshold Editions/Mercury Radio Arts
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Beck makes the case that when you're traveling in the wrong direction, slight course corrections won't cut it. He exposes the idea of "transformation" for the progressive smokescreen that it is, while maintaining that a return to individual rights, an uncompromising adherence to the Constitution, and a complete rethinking about the role of government in a free society is the only way forward.
The past is prologue -- The crime of the century -- The...
Author
Series
Federal financial management system requirements volume JFMIP-SR-02-02
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Language
English
Description
In 1776 the United States government started out on a shoestring and quickly went bankrupt fighting its War of Independence against Britain. At the war's end, the national government owed tremendous sums to foreign creditors and its own citizens. But lacking the power to tax, it had no means to repay them. The Founders and Finance is the first book to tell the story of how foreign-born financial specialists--immigrants--solved the fiscal crisis and...
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