Liberation Day

Pop out a sixpack, Mr. Average American. As of last week--May 4, to be exact--you started working for yourself instead of the Government. By the reckoning of Tax Foundation, Inc., the average wage earner on an eight-hour day had to work four months and four days this year just to pay his federal, state and local taxes. Figured on a daily basis, the tax bite seems no less painful: for two hours and 42 minutes of Mr. Average's day, he labors for those who serve him.

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