Abstract
Professor Lee finds the "death and taxes" poem by Rep. Ewing hypocritical for several reasons. He notes that the poem is derived from a 1920s populist attack on Treasury Secretary Mellon for cutting taxes on the rich in the name of trickle-down economics while relying on regressive excise taxes on the masses -- an attack similar to that waged by then-Governor Clinton during the 1992 presidential campaign. Further, says Lee, the Bush administration displayed more of a preference for regressive excise taxes than the Clinton plan, whose reliance in part on consumption taxes appears a consequence of 25 years of Republican "tax revolt" rhetoric.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
9-1993
Publication Information
60 Tax Notes 1393-1400 (1993)
Repository Citation
Lee, John W., "'Death and Taxes' and Hypocrisy" (1993). Faculty Publications. 1377.
https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/facpubs/1377