Tax and Spend Wadie N. Far With federal policies ostensibly aimed

With federal policies ostensibly aimed at combating sex trafficking–affecting all sex workers–understanding this industry is more vital than ever

gender and the family

between the sexual and the nonsexual—the boundaries between such categories being not nearly as well-policed at the time as they later became

the period when the relationship between intellectuals

and racial—than in the imperial museum

Tax and Spend Wadie N. Far With federal policies ostensibly aimedTaxes dominate contemporary American politics. Yet while many rail against big government, few Americans are prepared to give up the benefits they receive from the state. In Tax and Spend, historian Molly C. Michelmore examines an unexpected source of this contradiction and shows why many Americans have come to hate government but continue to demand the security it provides. Tracing the development of taxing and spending policy over the course of the