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John Crotty is an author and historian traditionally published by The History Press and Merrion Press.
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I came across this on social media, it’s obviously an American anti-tax rant, he’s talking about a tax on a breakfast beverage, that’s obviously a reference to the Boston Tea Party, when according to legend, American colonists protested against a British tax on tea, I think that the reality is a bit more complicated, but it’s the legend that’s important here.
So we get the idea, the guy doesn’t like taxes, I’m pretty sure nobody does, but there is a confusion here between two different issues.
One is how much tax we pay – how much of our income, through one tax or another, ends up being taken by the taxman. That’s a real issue that deserves, especially since it has a big impact on how lots of other things in the economy work.
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