re only month a alan brock orange county register editorial titled a case for repealing the income tax got my attention some quotes a tax on income because of the flexible definition of that concept invites the government to snoop into every nook and cranny of our lives encouraging people to snoop on one another and report transgressions against the almighty state which most americans deplored in nazi or communist regimes although most americans paid no income tax at all years ago withholding began only during world war ii as a temporary exigency and in the median family federal income tax was last year the federal government got only percent of its income from income taxes how long ago was it that the federal government somehow managed to stagger along on percent of its revenue would you believe five the income tax has converted a free people into a society of the fearful and the snitches
