By: Paul Craig Roberts|14 April, 2009|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: department of the treasury . john d rockefeller . progressive structure . state governments . us department of the treasury
This April 15 is the 94th year that Americans have had to file an income tax. For most Americans, the day is a non-event. The federal and state governments have already collected the taxes due by withholding from each paycheck over the course of the calendar year. Most Americans never saw the money and have no real idea that they…
Read more »By: Paul Craig Roberts|05 April, 2009|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: constitutional amendment . definition of freedom . income distribution . nineteenth century . plantation owners . seven deadly sins . upper middle class
Envy, one of the seven deadly sins, is not unknown to Americans. My last column noted the absurdity of Obama lumping the upper middle class in with the rich. The income distribution in the US is so skewed that the rich are found in the top one percent. The truly rich with the accoutrements associated with that class are in…
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