Affluence Police Tee Off On Mickelson

Did you ever have one of those moments? "If you add up all the federal, and you look at the disability and the unemployment and the Social Security and the state, my tax rate is 62, 63 percent," Mickelson said. Sure, businesses have to comply with regulations, and millionaires need to pay...

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Published in:Human events (Washington) 2013-02, Vol.69 (5), p.18
Main Author: Greenhut, Steven
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:English
Subjects:
Apologies
Society
Tax increases
Tax rates
Taxes
Wealth
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Summary:Did you ever have one of those moments? "If you add up all the federal, and you look at the disability and the unemployment and the Social Security and the state, my tax rate is 62, 63 percent," Mickelson said. Sure, businesses have to comply with regulations, and millionaires need to pay taxes, but somewhere we've shifted from honoring success to envying it, from viewing government as a limited tool to achieve a few necessary things (infrastructure, enforcing the rule of law) to seeing it as the be-all and end-all of our society.
ISSN:0018-7194