State Looteries: Historical Continuity, Rearticulations Of Racism, And American Taxation (Routledge Advances In Sociology)

This book uncovers thehidden biases of the lottery tax and expose some of the social consequences for financing public services through the lottery mechanism. Lottery taxes represent monetary exchanges that circulate money from some groups to others with the state acting as a mediary. This process raises a number of questions that thisvolume seeks to answer: From whom does this money come, and on whom is it spent? How might these tax practices constitute a form of institutional discrimination? In what ways does taxation create and recreate racial inequalities?

• | Author: Kasey Henricks, David G. Embrick
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Aug 31, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 198 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0415717647
• | ISBN-13: 9780415717649