VA 250 Program Series - The Price We Pay: Tax Policy and the Struggle for Equality in America
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time
- Thursday, Apr 16, 2026 6pm - 7:30pm
Location
The Center at Belvedere – Learning Center A, Room 206
540 Belvedere Boulevard
Charlottesville, VA 22901
Details
You can learn a lot about a society by how it raises and spends the public’s money. In this talk, UVA professor and award-winning historian Andrew Kahrl will tell the history of taxation in America and how it shaped larger struggles for freedom and equality in the nation’s past. He will show how America’s localized tax system evolved, how it works, who it has tended to work for, and how it made the America we live in today. And he will tell the story of those who fought for a fairer tax system in the past and the lessons of those struggles for understanding American politics today.
