BACK TO TAXACHUSETTS? represents the distillation of 24 studies on the impacts of the income tax proposal before Massachusetts voters this November. The book reviews the experience of states imposing similar taxes and demonstrates how the tax will devastate Massachusetts’ economic competitiveness and harm retirees, homeowners and small businesses. It reveals the false narratives advanced by the tax’s proponents who portray it as affecting a small number of “millionaires,” funding designated purposes, and remedying Massachusetts’ “regressive” tax regime. Finally, it examines the tax’s impact in a post-pandemic economy, where companies and employees are mobile, states compete for telecommuters, and federal tax policies continue to cap state and local tax deductibility.

Back to Taxachusetts?: How the proposed constitutional tax amendment would upend one of the best economies in the nation.

Business & Money

Sullivan, Gregory

Day, Liam

Mikula, Andrew

Economics

Pioneer Institute

As the first step toward a comprehensive reinterpretation of the role of evolutionary science and biomedicine in pre-1945 Japan, this book addresses the early writings of that era's most influential exponent of shinkaron (evolutionism), the German-educated research zoologist and popularizer of biomedicine, Oka Asajir&#333; (1868-1944). Concentrating on essays that Oka published in the years during and after the Russo-Japanese War (1904-5), the author describes the process by which Oka came to articulate a programmatic modernist vision of national regeneration that would prove integral to the ideological climate in Japan during the first half of the twentieth century. In contrast to other scholars who insist that Oka was merely a rationalist enlightener bent on undermining state Shinto orthodoxy, Gregory Sullivan maintains that Oka used notions from evolutionary biology of organic individuality--especially that of the nation as a super-organism--to underwrite the social and geopolitical aims of the Meiji state. The author suggests that this generative scientism gained wide currency among early twentieth-century political and intellectual elites, including Emperor Hirohito himself, who had personal connections to Oka. The wartime ideology may represent an unfinished attempt to synthesize Shinto fundamentalism and the eugenically-oriented modernism that Oka was among the first to articulate.

Regenerating Japan: Organicism, Modernism and National Destiny in Oka Asajirō's Evolution and Human Life (Ceu Press Studies in the History of Medicine, 10)

History

Asia

Central European University Press

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