The Tax Bite
April, 1996
The tax level measures government's financial power over the individual. It is a precise gauge of the subjugation of the citizen to the financial demands of the state.According to the Tax Foundation, a nonprofit research organization based in Washington, D.C., the average citizen had to work from January 1 through May 2 in 1992 to pay his taxes. In high-tax states, the citizen's tax sentence was even higher: In New York, the average citizen had to work until May 19 to pay his taxes. In Connectic...
