Restoring freedom at home
II
Heartland Institute
by Joseph Bast
10/01/05
Governments in the U.S. take approximately 40 percent of the country’s total income in taxes. In other words, nearly half of all the income generated each year is sent to governments to spend. How free are you when governments take half of your income? Serfs in the 16th and 17th centuries typically owed their feudal lords only a quarter of their crops and livestock, and often much less. Our forefathers fought a war for independence over tax levels that were far lower than those we now pay without complaint...
http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=17803
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Heartland Institute
by Joseph Bast
10/01/05
Governments in the U.S. take approximately 40 percent of the country’s total income in taxes. In other words, nearly half of all the income generated each year is sent to governments to spend. How free are you when governments take half of your income? Serfs in the 16th and 17th centuries typically owed their feudal lords only a quarter of their crops and livestock, and often much less. Our forefathers fought a war for independence over tax levels that were far lower than those we now pay without complaint...
http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=17803
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 30. Sep, 10:49
