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Bureaucracy and Bi-partisanship in Taxation: The Mellon Plan Revisited

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  • Murray, Lawrence L.

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One of the most durable stereotypes of recent American history is that of the 1920s as “a conservative Republican interlude between the progressive Democratic administrations of Wilson and Roosevelt.†An important feature of this stereotype is the “Mellon plan†for tax reform. Professor Murray demonstrates that there was remarkable unanimity among Republicans and Democrats on the policy issues addressed by the “Mellon plan,†and finds continuity, rather than contrast, between the tax plans of the Wilson, Harding, and Coolidge administrations. As Secretaries of the Treasury came and went between 1918 and 1921, staff assistants cultivated the plan which Mellon later adopted.

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  • Murray, Lawrence L., 1978. "Bureaucracy and Bi-partisanship in Taxation: The Mellon Plan Revisited," Business History Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 52(2), pages 200-225, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:buhirw:v:52:y:1978:i:02:p:200-225_03
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