| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.1

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Book Review

A Penny for the Governor, a Dollar for Uncle Sam: Income Taxation in Washington. By Phil Roberts. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002. xii, 198 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-295-98251-9.)
Phil Roberts, in this well-researched and well-argued book, traces the failed effort to establish an income tax in the state of Washington. The narrative details how Washington's farmers championed a state income tax to address significant economic problems but failed in the face of business interests, which controlled the courts.	1
In the early chapters of his book, Roberts explores the state's experience with federal income taxation. Previous histories of state income taxation have neglected this crucial context, but Roberts uses it to demonstrate how the Civil War income taxes, the short-lived income tax enacted in 1894, and debates over the ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment led residents of Washington to expect that income taxation would reach only the wealthiest citizens.	. . .

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