Despite costing hundreds of billions of dollars and subsidizing everything from homeownership and child care to health insurance, tax expenditures (commonly kno

Government size has attracted much scholarly attention. Political economists have considered large public expenditures a product of leftist rule and an expressi

New approach to the analysis of tax policies

Despite high levels of inequality and wage stagnation over several decades, the United States has done relatively little to address these problems—at least in

Welfare for the Rich is the first book to describe and analyze the many ways that federal and state governments provide handouts—subsidies, grants, tax credit