Tax Day is three months past, but only now are Americans finally finished paying for government. The Washington-based Tax Foundation reports that Tax Freedom Day, when people stop turning their earnings over to government, was May 9, the latest ever.
Taxes are only the most visible form of government's burden, however.
Deficit spending, too, costs people. On top of that comes government regulation of all sorts. Americans for Tax Reform, an activist taxpayers' group, estimates that it is the first week of July before people start laboring for themselves instead of government. In short, we spend more than half of our working lives financing government. For believers in limited government, then, there is probably no more important task than constraining the growth of government spending, and that is most achievable by reversing the increase in taxes.