1 in 3 Dollars Earned Goes to Taxes. Why?

1 in 3 Dollars Earned Goes to Taxes. Why?
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Most Americans were glad to get another Tax Day behind them this month. It’s galling to hand over a third of everything you earned last year to government to waste, fraud, and abuse.

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Peter St Onge is an economic research fellow in the Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation. He holds a doctorate in economics from George Mason University and is a former professor at Taiwan’s Feng Chia University. He blogs at Substack.com/@profstonge.