Thursday, April 18, 2013

Mehrotra on the Bipartisan Origins of the Federal Income Tax

Bloomberg.com yesterday carried an op-ed by Ajay Mehrotra, Indiana Law, on The Bipartisan Origins of the Income Tax. "Our current tax system," he writes, "is a byproduct of the longstanding American ambivalence toward centralized political power. It is a form of statism for anti-statists"  More.