Jonah Goldberg wrote one heck of a post for National Review‘s the Corner called “Taxes &Tyranny.” I strongly urge you to read it in its entirety. Moneyquote:

According to that Reason video I posted below, Americans work an average of 103 days a year just to pay their taxes. If you had to work 365 days a year to pay your taxes, that would be a kind of slavery or indentured servitude, because all of your productive labor would be going to the government. You would have no resources of your own to provide for the life you wanted. Instead the government would provide you not with what you want, but what the government decides you need.

That sounds like a kind of tyranny to me.| MORE ›