The Tax-Man Cometh

With April 15 falling on Easter weekend this year, tax day in the United States was moved to April 18. Although Americans got a few days reprieve, the tax-man inevitably made his annual appearance, and we are all poorer for it.
Even my non-political friends were posting ‘taxation is theft’ memes on social media yesterday. This indicates just how deeply most Americans loath the IRS. Why shouldn’t they? In an article posted on the Mises Wire, Judge Andrew Napolitano give a succinct summary of just how deeply the tax-man bites:
‘With a tax code that exceeds 72,000 pages in length and consumes more than six billion person hours per year to determine taxpayers’ taxable income, with an IRS that has become a feared law unto itself, and with a government that continues to extract more wealth from every taxpaying American every year, is it any wonder that April 15th is a day of dread in America? Social Security taxes and income taxes have dogged us all since their institution during the last century, and few politicians have been willing to address these ploys for what they are: theft.’
To add insult to injury, Americans had to dig a little deeper into their own pockets to facilitate IRS takings this year.

This post was published at Schiffgold on APRIL 19, 2017.