Your Money or Your Life: Why We Must Abolish the Income Tax
"Although not quite as bracing as his brief forSeparating School & State(1994), Richman's writ against income taxation is lively and to the point. Richman wastes no time sloganeering for libertarianism, putting down the dang liberals, or telling IRS horror stories ad nauseam. Instead he scores the income tax as the vehicle for too much government intrusion into privacy, for turning the usual U.S. presumption of innocence on its head in IRS disputes with taxpayers, for making citizens the state's subjects instead of its masters, for exacerbating falling individual incomes, for discouraging saving, and for being the imposition of a nominally progressive elite on an electorate never allowed to deal with tax issues directly. Worst of all, the income tax is theft of individuals's dollars regardless of how the government spends those plundered dollars. Reform is never what it seems; three taxpayer bills of rights have been ineffectual. As with slavery, Richman concludes, abolition is the answer. Consider this the essential argument of the anti-income tax movement."   --Booklist 2/15/99--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.