When We Become the Man Behind the Tree
dan thomasson
Russell Long used to have a favorite answer to why it is so difficult to “reform” the tax system. “When it comes to taxes,” the late chairman of the Senate Finance Committee would invariably say, “It’s: Don’t tax me. Don’t tax thee. Tax that man behind the tree.”Often he would follow that up with the indisputable truism that one man’s tax reform is another man’s nightmare and certainly no reform at all. …
i don’t know about “indisputable”, but it’s a passable read.