The Greedy Hand: How Taxes Drive Honest Americans Crazy and What to Do About It.
Reason › Vol. 30 Nbr. 11, April 1999
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The Greedy Hand: How Taxes Drive Honest Americans Crazy and What to Do About It.
by Amity Shlaes, New York: Random House, 240 pages, $24.00
"The father of the modern American state was a pipe-puffing executive at R.H. Macy & Co. named Beardsley Ruml." Thus opens Amity Shlaes' new book, The Greedy Hand. Shlaes is an editor at The Wall Street Journal, where she writes many excellent unsigned editorials about the absurdities, inefficiencies, and injustices of taxes. Her book shows, often dramatically, how the tax apparatus "pervades, dampens and makes knots of our lives" in our roles as workers, shoppers, investors, spouses, and parents. She discusses income taxes, Social Secur...See the full content of this document
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