Excellent... Williamson's most important contribution is her insistence that taxes are crucial in defining notions of what it means to be a real, deserving, and politically engaged American citizen.
Joseph Thorndike, Tax Notes A Tea Party expert draws on fascinating interviews with 49 Americans
white, black, Asian and Hispanic, urban and rural, Republican and Democrat
on their views on taxation, from ... Read moreform-filling to government waste to loopholes, and neatly upends the view of US citizens as reluctant taxpayers.
Karen Shook, Times Higher Education Read My Lips is a useful corrective to the dire view of Americans as irrational and ill-informed antitax zealots. It also offers Democrats a useful insight: Maybe Republicans' perceived edge on taxation owes less to the popularity of their views than to Democrats' own failure to marshal a civic commitment to taxes for liberal ends. Having identified the problem, Williamson may be pointing the way to a solution to the ugly politics of taxation.
Josh Mound, Chronicle of Higher Education Show Less