The Conscience of a Liberal

10.

“In Opposing Tax Plan, Schumer Supports Wall Street Over Party,” New York Times, July 30, 2007, p. A1.

11.

Eric M. Uslaner and Mitchell Brown, “Inequality, Trust, and Civic Engagement,” American Politics Research 33, no. 6 (2005), pp. 868–94.

12.

The ANES Guide to Public Opinion and Electoral Behavior, table 5A.2, http://electionstudies.org/ nesguide/toptable/ tab5a_2.htm.

13.

Uslaner and Brown, “Inequality, Trust, and Civic Engagement.”

14.

Irwin Garfinkel, Lee Rainwater, and Timothy Smeeding, “Equal Opportunities for Children: Social Welfare Expenditures in the English-speaking Countries and in Western Europe,” Focus 23, no. 3 (Spring 2005), pp. 16–23.

15.

Timothy M. Smeeding, “Public Policy, Economic Inequality, and Poverty: The United States in Comparative Perspective,” Social Science Quarterly 86, suppl. 1 (Dec. 2005), pp. 955–83.

16.

Bureau of Labor Statistics, “Comparative Real Gross Domestic Product per Capita and per Employed Person,” ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/ special.requests/ ForeignLabor/flsgdp.txt.

17.

See Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Statistical Index, http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/075816831582.

18.

Alberto Alesina, Ed Glaeser, and Bruce Sacerdote, “Work and Liesure in the U.S. and Europe: Why So Different?” (National Bureau of Economic Research working paper no. 11278, Apr. 2005.

19.

OECD Statistical Index, op. cit.

20.

Data from OECD Education at a Glance, http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/46/22/37368734.xls.

21.

Tax Policy Center, “Options to Extend the 2001–2006 Tax Cuts, Static Impact on Individual Income and Estate Tax Liability and Revenue ($ billions), 2008-17,” Table T07-0126, http://taxpolicycenter.org/ TaxModel/tmdb/Content /PDF/T07-0126.pdf.

22.

Kimberly A. Clausing, “Multinational Firm Tax Avoidance and U.S. Government Revenue” (working paper, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, 2007).

23.

OECD Tax Database, http://www.oecd.org/ctp/taxdatabase.

24.

Piketty and Saez, 2005 preliminary estimates, http://elsa.berkeley.edu/~saez/TabFig2005prel.xls.

25.

David Card and Alan B. Krueger, “Minimum Wages and Employment: A Case Study of the Fast-Food Industry in New Jersey and Pennsylvania,” American Economic Review 84, no. 4 (1994), pp. 772–93.

13 THE CONSCIENCE OF A LIBERAL

1.

Quoted in Viereck, “The New Conservatism.”

2.

http://www.ssa.gov/kids/history.htm.

3.

Results of a Consumer Reports survey, September 2007, http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/health-fitness/health-care/health-insurance-9- 07/overview/0709_health_ov.htm.