Income Tax and Privacy
In light of the government takeover of personal health care, there’s been a lot of chatter, from those that care about such things, about the inevitable rise of taxes to pay for this massive expansion of government control and power (yes, I’m deliberately loading my language with as many scary words as I can reasonably manage :). One of the ideas against increased taxes which I rather like (and which is neither new nor original) is that income tax is an invasion of privacy. Rather than making both of my readers suffer through my attempts to stumble through the idea, I’ll turn to a professional wordsmith and general funny man, National Review’s Jonah Goldberg. He discusses this idea in his “Goldberg File” for April 8. …