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A Nation of Tax-Evaders
by Lawrence S. Wittner posted on Tuesday, 3 March 2009

The furor over the non-payment of taxes by Tom Daschle and a few other recent nominees for public office should not obscure the deeper truth that the United States has become a nation of tax-evaders.

On the simplest level, this tax evasion is exemplified by the fact that vast numbers of people, including some who are quite wealthy, under-report their incomes to avoid paying their lawful share of the nation’s taxes. And still others, especially millionaires and billionaires, avoid taxes quite legally through a range of obscure loopholes and other tax dodges, including deposits in offshore tax havens. Numerous giant U.S. corporations pay no taxes at all.

Even more striking, cutting taxes is wildly popular among Americans and, as a consequence, in recent decades tax-cutting is all the rage among politicians—whether in good times or in bad, in war or in peace. Taxes, it is assumed, are evil, and like evil should be driven out of American life.

http://www.laprogressive.com/2009/03/03/a-nation-of-tax-evaders/