Income Tax Is Worker Exploitation

Anthony Gregory
4/15/2009

Every year the average American worker confronts the federal government in a more disturbingly intimate manner than during any other so regularly and widely experienced encounter. On April 15, Americans must pay tribute to the central state on the basis of their income.

To be more precise, the coerced payment occurs continuously as every dollar is earned. Ever since World War II, Americans have had their income tax withheld by their employers, so they don’t realize all at once how much they’re being milked and revolt. Government funding runs more smoothly, especially in larger amounts, when the taxpayer is soaked gradually.

Although the grand larceny is unremitting, April 15 still has its unique significance, for it is this date by which most Americans have to submit their tax forms, often exhausted from an excruciating effort to accurately account for their financial affairs from the past year, dreading that an arithmetic error or misreading of the illegible tax code might land them in federal prison. It is an onerous imposition for millions. It is a reminder that our government is essentially an extortion racket. If it happened closer to election time, campaign rhetoric would perhaps be more interesting.

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