"The median family of four ... paid $4,722 in federal taxes last year. That’s enough to pay for a new curtain for the secretary of commerce’s office, to bribe a farmer not to plant 38 acres with corn ... seven weeks of salary for a Customs man assigned to save us from the terror of high-quality, low priced foreign TV sets, or the subsidy on 6,000 bushels of wheat to prop up the Soviet regime. Surely civilization would collapse without such essential services." | by: | Alan Bock
(1944-2011) Senior editorial writer and former editorial page editor for the Orange County Register, columnist, contributing editor at Liberty magazine |
Source: | Orange County Register |
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