11/26/2002

Once more idealistic journalism brings to light inequities in the taxing of one class of society over another. Can we have a minority not pay their fair share of taxes? Apparently not, says the Wall Street Journal, under the leadership of Paul Gigot, the grinning chameleon of the right. According to the Journal, a person earning $12,000, pays 4 percent in federal income tax which is not "enough to get his or her blood boiling with tax rage. … [A]s fewer and fewer people are responsible for paying more and more of all taxes, the constituency for tax cutting, much less for tax reform, is eroding. Workers who pay little or no taxes can hardly be expected to care about tax relief for everybody else. They are also that much more detached from recognizing the costs of government." Read the article in Slate (Apparently the editorial is not available for the hoi polloi to read online.). Read the article and then "aux barricades".

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