“How is that we hear the loudest yelps about liberty from the drivers of negroes?” British pamphleteer Samuel Johnson wondered acidly in 1775 about the American colonists who complained about the heavy yoke of taxation. (The pamphlet was entitled Taxation No Tyranny.)
Today, we might ask how it is that we hear the loudest yelps about the danger of high federal taxes from companies whose business relies in part on… federal tax payments.
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