On Our Backs, Ourselves

My New York Post column  today argues in favor of the flat tax — not primarily on economic grounds but on philosophical grounds. It is simply wrong for half the population to carry the other half on its back in terms of federal income taxes. And don’t give me that boilerplate blather about how the poor pay “payroll” taxes into the doomed Ponzi Scheme known as Social Security ; that’s entirely unrelated to the consequences of the 16th Amendment — one of the little presents the Progressive Era has bequeathed us to bedevil us. Let’s start with the facts: Keep reading this post . . .

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On Our Backs, Ourselves