The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Management of Innovation and Change Series)
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The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Management of Innovation and Change Series)
Clayton M. Christensen
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What do the Honda Supercub, Intel's 8088 processor, and hydraulic excavators have in common? They are all examples of disruptive technologies that helped to redefine the competitive landscape of their respective markets. These products did not come about as the result of successful companies carrying out sound business practices in established markets. In The Innovator's Dilemma, author Clayton M. Christensen shows how these and other products cut into the low end of the marketplace and eventually evolved to displace high-end competitors and their reigning technologies.

At the heart of The Innovator's Dilemma is how a successful company with established products keeps from being pushed aside by newer, cheaper products that will, over time, get better and become a serious threat. Christensen writes that even the best-managed companies, in spite of their attention to customers and continual investment in new technology, are susceptible to failure no matter what the industry, be it hard drives or consumer retailing. Succinct and clearly written, The Innovator's Dilemma is an important book that belongs on every manager's bookshelf. Highly recommended. --Harry C. Edwards

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The Innovator's Dilemma demonstrates why outstanding companies that had their competitive antennae up, listened astutely to customers, and invested aggressively in new technologies still lost their market dominance. Drawing on patterns of innovation in a variety of industries, the author argues that good business practices can, nevertheless, weaken a great firm. He shows how truly important, breakthrough innovations are often initially rejected by customers that cannot currently use them, leading firms to allow their most important innovations to languish. Many companies now face the innovator's dilemma. Keeping close to customers is critical for current success. But long-term growth and profits depend upon a very different managerial formula. This book will help managers see the changes that may be coming their way and will show them how to respond for success. The Management of Innovation and Change Series.

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Revised, updated, and with a new chapter, this book continues to take the radical position that great companies can fail precisely because they do everything right. It demonstrates why outstanding companies lose their market leadership when confronted with disruptive technology--and it explains how to avoid a similar fate. Drawing on insights from a number of industries--such as the computer and disk drive industries, discount retailing, minimills, pharmaceuticals, and the automobile industry--Christensen shows why good management often turns out to be all wrong--and what to do about it.

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5 out of 5 stars No Dilemma Here.......2007-08-18

It is the typical manager's nightmare. A startup with a powerful idea wipes out all the dominance your large ogranisation had. It can happen overnite and without warning.

How do you stop this nightmare from happening? Well, the answer could lie in The Innovator's Dilemma.

Kishore Dharmarajan
Author of Eightstorm: 8-Step Brainstorming for Innovative Managers

5 out of 5 stars A disruptive view on innovation.......2007-08-09

Professor Clayton Christensen introduced the term "disruptive innovation" as a management buzzword, the whole book spins around this concept and offers very perturbing views on why being a star performer is a major threat to pass the next opportunity.

First, a definition: disruptive innovations are those that offer "less" in the critical performance parameters of current customers. As a consequence disruptive innovators have to look for different customers than the ones that established companies already have.

To make the point a deep analysis of the hard disk drive industry is made. More than 100 innovations are analysed and only 5 are claimed as being disruptive: the progressive reduction of size from 14", to 8", to 5 1/4", etc. All follow the same pattern: the innovation had lower performance on capacity which was the critical parameter for existing customers and innovators had to find new customers, eg for the 8" drive the mini-computer manufacturers instead of mainframe manufacturers. In fact innovations were so disruptive that almost none of the established companies was able to be successful in the new market. Although current players where by and large able to bring forward the other 100 sustaining inovations without major troubles.

The second part of the book recommends how to make disruptive innovations work, with supporting evidence from examples. This are:
-Create a new organization to deal with the innovation
-Match organization and opportunity size
-Allow the organization to fail rapidly and inexpensively and move on
-Leverage some of the existing resources but not the values and processes of the main organization
-Spend time looking for the right customers rather than the right technology.

The surprising learning is that what impedes that good companies cannot profit from disruptive innovations are that they are good at what they do in their main business not that htey are bad. The hot topic is still when a disruptive innovation is comming how can we spot and capitalise on it, and put ourselves in the dilemma of chosing the best option.

A well laid out, thought provoking and seminal work on innovation.

4 out of 5 stars Repetitive.......2007-06-23

It was a hassle getting through this book, but overall it was worth it. A lot of good lessons learned, but he says the same things over and over again. Read the first and last chapters and you'll be fine.

5 out of 5 stars Business calssic.......2007-06-17

The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen is a must read book for any person interested in keeping their business moving forward or for any person starting a business. Christensen clearly exposes the traps that cause successful companies to stop innovating and succumb to innovative new firms. The material is presented as a series of fascinating case studies with commentary.

5 out of 5 stars just great book.......2007-05-12

Just great book for those considering start their own business.
Would be helpful for bean counters in large corporations too.
The Innovator's Dilemma : When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (The Management of Innovation and Change Ser.)
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    Clayton M. Christensen
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      Clayton M. Christensen
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      A World History of Tax Rebellions: An Encyclopedia of Tax Rebels, Revolts, and Riots from Antiquity to the Present
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        A World History of Tax Rebellions: An Encyclopedia of Tax Rebels, Revolts, and Riots from Antiquity to the Present
        David F. Burg
        Manufacturer: Routledge
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        A World History of Tax Rebellions is an exhaustive reference source for over 4,300 years of riots, rebellions, protests, and war triggered by abusive taxation and tax collecting systems around the world. Each of the chronologically arranged entries focuses on a specific historical event, analyzing its roots, and socio-economic context. Readers can visit familiar uprisings like the Boston Tea Party, while discovering lesser-known events such as the Mauritanian Rebellion in fourth-century Africa, the Marriage Aid Protest in medieval France, and the 1765 Rebellion of the Barrios in Ecuador. A separate A-to-Z biographical section introduces revolt leaders, activists, and other personalities that make up the full, and often painful, history of taxation.

        Those Dirty Rotten taxes: The Tax Revolts that Built America
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        Those Dirty Rotten taxes: The Tax Revolts that Built America
        Charles Adams
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        Adams, an independent scholar affiliated with the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C., has produced a breezy account of tax revolt in American history, from the Stamp Act to the present day. Although there is scarce opportunity in the book's 242 pages to delve into the details of such pivotal events in early American history as Shay's Rebellion and the collapse of the Federalist Party, Adams does consistently manage to choose those details which best support his thesis that "excessive" taxation is a form of government tyranny. This leads to interesting interpretations of history such as his sympathetic description of the Reconstruction-era Ku Klux Klan as an underground resistance movement against federal tax collectors. Adams also provides a full litany of charges of present-day assaults on liberty by the IRS. There is throughout a certain sense of preaching to the choir, quite understandable given the subject matter. However, those who pick up the book not thoroughly convinced that taxes are at best a necessary evil might welcome more history and less rhetoric.

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        In 1798, after Congress had passed its first direct tax on houses, the government cooked up a scheme to count and measure the windows on every taxpayer's house, in order to calculate how much to charge. But German settlers in eastern Pennsylvania would have none of it. They organized into small bands, armed themselves, and scoured the countryside for assessors who were seized, assaulted, and driven across county lines. When some of the rebels were arrested, an auctioneer named John Fries marched on the courthouse and freed them. President John Adams called out the militia. Fries was arrested, tried for treason, and sentenced to be hanged.

        It was hardly the first tax revolt in American history. From the Boston Tea Party to the Whiskey Rebellion to the Fries Rebellion, the late eighteenth century in America was full of armed violence in response to hated taxes. Yet, as Charles Adams recounts in this remarkable book, the Fries Rebellion was also far from the last of its kind.

        Throughout its history America has been home to a series of little-known tax rebellions. These rebellions have played major roles in the presidencies of George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and many of their successors. They have helped bring about the Civil war, the birth of the Ku Klux Klan, and, ironically, the birth of the Internal Revenue Service. When the old Internal Revenue Bureau was strengthened to control moonshiner tax rebels in the Appalachias, it started a "Second Whiskey Rebellion" that continues even today. Country singer George Jones' popular ballad recalls:

        G-Men, T-Men, Revenuers too, looking for the place where my pappy made his brew.

        Today, as long-overdue calls for abolishing or overhauling the IRS are finally being heard in the halls of Congress, Those Dirty Rotten Taxes teaches us that we are continuing a long and vitally important American tradition. We have overthrown the tyranny of British taxes, Federalists' taxes, the Tariff, and the Revenuers' system. Has the tyranny of the Income Tax finally had its day?

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        3 out of 5 stars Biased presentation of Adam Smith and Thomas Paine.......2007-03-25

        The author presents Adam Smith and Thomas Paine as perhaps the book's two greatest heroes and cites them extensively. Yet, in apparent zeal for the rights of the wealthy, the author throughout the book disdains progressive taxation, tax exemptions for the poor, and estate and inheritance taxes, arguing that "All wealth, labor included, should pay its share of the cost of maintaining the common government. Even in ancient Rome, widows and orphans paid their small mite, and their contributions were set aside to provide uniforms for the cavalry." The author conveniently ignores what Smith and Paine had to say on these subjects.

        Smith thought that taxing the wages of labor and/or consumption taxes on the "necessaries of life" (construed broadly to include what was necessary not just for bare subsistence but for "decency") was inequitable, inefficient, and "absurd." He also wrote in Book V of the Wealth of Nations:

        "The necessaries of life occasion the great expense of the poor. They find it difficult to get food, and the greater part of their little revenue is spent in getting it. The luxuries and vanities of life occasion the principal expense of the rich, and a magnificent house embellishes and sets off to the best advantage all the other luxuries and vanities which they possess. A tax upon house-rents, therefore, would in general fall heaviest upon the rich; and in this sort of inequality there would not, perhaps, be anything very unreasonable. It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion."

        Thomas Paine in later life extended his critique in Common Sense of inherited political power to a critique of inherited economic power. In his pamphlet Agrarian Justice, Paine argued for the adoption of an inheritance tax to balance out the unfair distribution of "landed property." For Paine, it was common sense that God gave "the Earth as an inheritance" to all of God's children. Paine proposed that the inheritance tax be used to create a national fund that would give a specified sum to everyone turning 21 years old as compensation for the loss of their natural birthright to joint proprietorship in the Earth.

        4 out of 5 stars The Only Certain Things in Life: Taxes, and more Taxes.......2006-05-26

        Author Charles Adams is a former lecturer at UCLA and a tax consultant with the CATO Institute, a Washington D.C. Think Tank. He has written many publications on the subject of taxes, with most all of them attacking the present system of income tax and discussing ways to improve the system of internal revenue collection.

        This book is mostly a lesson in history and it explains in detail how certain taxes came into being and how the American people reacted. Much of the coverage here is old news, like the Sugar Act, the Stamp Act, and the protests that led to the American Revolution. But then there are other taxes that are not so well- known, like the tariffs that led to the Civil War in the 1800's. Most people think the Civil War was fought over slavery, but this was only one reason among many. Adams shows how Lincoln deliberately used taxes to antagonize the South, leading ultimately to war, which was exactly what he wanted.

        The income tax is the one that most Americans know best, because it's the tax that everyone pays at present. Woodrow Wilson was president when the income tax became law. Officials who passed the tax swore that it would never be greater than a few percentage points and it would never be levied against anyone except the very wealthy. Of course, as everyone knows, this was a blatant lie to sell the plan to the states and to the general public. Once the ability to tax was in place, it was only a matter of a few years before it expanded and grew to several times the original level. Adams talks at length about the deceptions used by politicians to get this and other taxes enacted.

        Adams spends most of the book talking about the income tax and possible alternatives to the tax. One part of the book is titled "The tyranny of the income tax, 1913 to 199?". This book was published in 1998. Adams was being very optimistic if he thought the income tax would be a thing of the past only 1 year after he published his book. The use of the question mark shows his optimism that the income tax will be replaced with a different system of taxation at some point in the near future.

        This book is a fairly quick read. The print is larger than normal and many of the pages include illustrations, with political cartoons and photos from the past, mocking the government's position on taxation. The cartoons are mostly humorous in nature, and they depict different political figures and other people talking cynically about different taxes and their affects on the people.

        Overall, this is a good book about the issue of taxation and rebellion. It's obviously biased against taxes, but author Charles Adams maintains a level of respect throughout, stating some of the facts about taxes and offering up alternatives to the present system. He doesn't resort to name- calling, like some other authors. You can tell that Adams is no friend of taxation, but he basically lets you, the reader, decide for yourself about this difficult issue and how it has affected Americans from the early days of the republic.

        4 out of 5 stars Entertaining vignettes of citizens resisting the taxman.......2004-08-15

        This book is for general reading and should not be confused with a scholarly history of taxation. It is a series of chapters that are brief retellings of various historical incidents involving citizens resisting taxation in various ways or citizens being made to suffer through taxation programs. These tellings do have a point of view and historians may find some of them rather blunt and ignoring certain subtleties that might mitigate some of the author's point of view. However, in total the book does make its point that it is up to the citizens to hold the government responsible for its spending and the taxation it levies to pay for that spending.

        While I abhor taxation beyond what is absolutely necessary, I think all the arguments about taxes actually function to distract us from the real thing we should be debating and that is government spending. The problem is that the modern state has so many of us on the receiving end of this or that program that we will resist any program that decreases the increase in our program's spending (let alone any actual cuts). So, when someone proposes ANY cut in spending, those being cut raise a loud resistance effort to defeat it. This is why we try and starve the government by cutting taxes - the hope being that the starved beast will not be able to increase the handouts without limit.

        Anyway, this can be an entertaining read. There is a list for further reading and an index. Just don't take everything in here as gospel.


        1 out of 5 stars Not too good.......2001-04-25

        I was very disappointed with this book after hearing positive reveiws from many others. It is hard to take a book seriously that makes controversial historical claims, and then fails to footnote the sources. I found the writing to be dull and many historical facts to be in error. If you are looking for a good book on the history of taxation, do not look here.

        5 out of 5 stars one of the best histories I've read in a while.......2000-02-16

        This book lay on my shelf some time before I finally got to it. Probably the word "taxes" sounds of bordom and generally negative overtones, but as I finish this book tonight I have found that I thoroughly enjoyed it. I highly recommend it to the history buff and tax-hater in all of us, excepting democrats [socialist], of course. The chapters dealing with the War for Southern Independence are especially interesting: Lincoln and the so-called moral North get a good ol woodshed whooping. One they deserve--for we all know that money and not morals has always been their priority. A great great book.
        Win your personal tax revolt
        Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
        • a useful, but dated book
        Win your personal tax revolt
        Bill Greene
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        3 out of 5 stars a useful, but dated book.......2000-06-23

        The book is a useful analysis of very agressive tactics that sometimes cross over the legal line...I understand the author later spent some time in Jail. It is also nearly 2 decades since this book came to print, so many of the tactics are dated and of little or no use.
        Tax Revolt: The Rebellion Against an Overbearing, Bloated, Arrogant, and Abusive Government
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        • Interesting from political and historical perspective
        • Inspiration from a brilliant writer and speaker
        • Power to the People-YOU can make a difference
        Tax Revolt: The Rebellion Against an Overbearing, Bloated, Arrogant, and Abusive Government
        Phil Valentine
        Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson
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        Ever since the Boston Tea Party, courageous and patriotic citizens have rebelled against the government's overbearing and abusive taxation of its constituents. This book is the powerful rallying cry to all Americans to continue to fight against our ever-increasing taxes. Using as a touchstone the heroic incident in Tennessee, when citizens converged on the state capitol to protest and repeatedly beat back attempts to pass a state tax, Valentine weaves an inspiring story of how patriotic citizens have stood up to taxes in the past, how many intrepid constituents continue to fight, and how Americans should resist and even revolt against taxes on a state and national level. By exploring the crippling effects of taxes on our economy and the lives of each individual citizen and drawing from the stories of other revolts (with exclusive behind-the-scenes details about the Tennessee rebellion), Valentine will anger and incite readers to action, giving them the motivation and know-how to spread the word and activate a powerful new revolution.

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        4 out of 5 stars Interesting from political and historical perspective.......2005-05-26

        I work in the state tax area, so I enjoyed the historical accounts of tax revolts. I also enjoyed hearing about the TN legislature's political moves used in trying to get a personal income tax passed. No surprise that the writing style is rather self-aggrandizing (Mr. Valentine is a talk-show radio host.)

        5 out of 5 stars Inspiration from a brilliant writer and speaker.......2005-03-26

        I listen to Mr. Phil Valentine Monday through Friday, here in middle Tennessee. I and my family were at these Capitol Tax Revolt Rallies in Nashville. I urge you to grab the opportunity to become inspired toward "rebellion against an overbearing, bloated, arrogant and abusive government" by reading this book. Mr. Valentine is eloquent and, yet, easy to follow.

        Come on! I'll meet you all at the town square!

        5 out of 5 stars Power to the People-YOU can make a difference.......2005-03-11

        This is an extraordinary story about a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Buy this book today and soak up the joy and courage of a free people claiming their right to raise their voices in protest.

        Phil Valentine was Tennessee's Paul Revere. Not only was he there, right in the middle of the action, he was rallying the citizens of Tennessee to claim their rightful place in government.

        This is one amazing, inspiring story. GET THIS BOOK.
        Property Taxes and Tax Revolts: The Legacy of Proposition 13
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          Property Taxes and Tax Revolts: The Legacy of Proposition 13
          Arthur O'Sullivan , Terri A. Sexton , and Steven M. Sheffrin
          Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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          Property tax revolts have occurred both in the United States and abroad. This book examines the causes and consequences of property tax revolts, focusing on California's experience with Proposition 13. New theoretical approaches and evidence from a comprehensive empirical study are used to highlight the equity and efficiency of property tax systems. Since property taxes are local government's main revenue source, the book includes a comparative study of the evolution of local government following property tax limitations in several states. Finally, the book considers alternatives for reform and lessons to avoid future revolts.
          Crisis: The taxpayer revolt and your kids' schools
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            Crisis: The taxpayer revolt and your kids' schools
            Efrem Sigel
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            I'm Mad As Hell: The Exclusive Story of the Tax Revolt and Its Leader
            Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
            • The Story of His Campaign and Life
            • A fine story about much more than just a tax revolt
            I'm Mad As Hell: The Exclusive Story of the Tax Revolt and Its Leader
            Howard Jarvis , and Robert Pack
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            5 out of 5 stars The Story of His Campaign and Life.......2002-05-21

            For nearly 16 years HJ argued for lower property taxes before proposition 13 became law in 1978; it was not a quick and easy task. Those who would work for any similar change may learn something from his story. From 1942 to 1991 about 25% of the Federal Defense budget was spent in California. This created a growing economy, even if it drained funds from the northeast states.

            Since 1945 land prices and property taxes were booming in California. After his 1962 retirement, HJ began his involvement with the United Organization of Taxpayers. [A movement needs a cadre of dedicated workers.] It then affiliated with other organizations, and thousands of volunteers from all over the state. [The movement must be represented in all counties.] It is very important to have unity and loyalty to the group. [Fragmentation, petty quarrels, and demoralization should be avoided.] They experienced many defeats. [Expect to lose many battles before final victory.] Proposition 13 cut property taxes in half (p.9)! This set an example for the other states (p.10). It could never have been achieved without the Initiative & Referendum law in Calif. But an organization can pass around a petition and get tens of thousands of signatures. Even if it has no legal effect it will impress and scare elected officials. Calif. passed an initiative and referendum law in 1911, an extension to the right of petition. This allows the people to write a law and bypass corrupt state politicians. Without the right to petition, Proposition 13 would not have been passed.

            Chapters One thru Seven tell of the work by this movement. 64,000 tax-exempt corporations and 18,000 charitable trusts paid no property taxes. Most of them were set up to get a tax break! Towns would raise assessments one year, then the tax rate the next (p.28). The enormous increases in property taxes priced young couples out of the market. And older people had lowered incomes.

            Chapter 8 is his autobiography. He was born and raised in Utah. His father was a carpenter who studied law and became a judge. HJ studied law at the University of Utah by day and worked at a mill by night. He taught boxing in college, and fought as a professional. HJ also played semipro baseball for a copper mill (p.209). He had a varied and interesting life as a newspaper publisher, and then as a manufacturer. Pages 256-7 tell of his legal experiences with the patent on radio push-button tuning; they lost out to big corporations due to high level political decisions. He was part of the group that ran an ad for a Congressional candidate - they decided on "the guy in the sailor suit" (p.263).

            Chapter Nine lists his political ideas. He advocates elimination all property taxes, and using income taxes (ability to pay), sales taxes (with some exemptions), and "other forms of taxes". HJ would encourage more public participation in the public business of government. He recommends limiting the size of government to limit the power of politicians. Public schools should be overhauled to create a better product. HJ wants more personal savings to replace the Social Security system. He also wants the US to have the most powerful military in the world, but doesn't want foreign entanglements.

            5 out of 5 stars A fine story about much more than just a tax revolt.......2000-04-03

            In this book, Howard Jarvis tells his story. Mainly, the book deals with the victorious anti-tax movement in California in the beginning of 70's, but Mr. Jarvis also shares much more of his rich life experience with us. Among other, we'll learn how Mr. Jarvis successfully fought the trade unions' sabotage during WWII. The different subjects are in approppriate proportions and presented in a very interesting style. Even though I'm rather ignorant and uninterested of US inner politics, I found the book really fascinating.

            I have just one advice to the readers of this book. The idea of forcing the hated clique of parasite politicians and civil servants on their knees might seem very attractive to you. However, I read lately that both Howard Jarvis and Paul Gann got killed under mysterious circumstances shortly after their triumph with the tax proposal. I don't know if it's true or not, but my advice would still be to avoid confronting governments openly. (Read "How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World" by Harry Browne to learn more about this subject.)
            America's coming tax revolt
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              America's coming tax revolt

              Manufacturer: Parrot Communications Int'l
              ProductGroup: Book
              Binding: Paperback
              ASIN: 1882438000

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              America's Coming Tax Revolt takes a unique look at what has gone wrong with America's tax system and what is being done about it. Most importantly, the book shows how America can combat its ever-rising tax burden, reform its tax system, restore sanity to its government's budgeting process, and prevent the financial calamities that lie ahead if America does not address its problems by reigning in the unchecked growth in government spending and completely overhauling its existing tax system.
              Bill Greene's Welcome to the Tax Revolt
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                Bill Greene's Welcome to the Tax Revolt
                Bill Greene
                Manufacturer: Mill Valley, Calif.: Aunt Tilly, Ltd. 1980
                ProductGroup: Book
                Binding: Hardcover
                ASIN: B000UTGTEM
                California and the American Tax Revolt: Proposition 13 Five Years Later
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                  California and the American Tax Revolt: Proposition 13 Five Years Later
                  Terry Schwadron
                  Manufacturer: Univ of California Pr
                  ProductGroup: Book
                  Binding: Hardcover

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