Link: RealClearPolitics – Articles – The Sneaky Government & Your Tax Burden.

This excerpt from a larger article by John Stossel is a little nauseating. 

In 1904, government, federal and state, cost every citizen $20 per year, according to a 1999 Tax Foundation study. Don’t blame inflation –that only brought it to $340. For more than 150 years after we declared independence, we spent less than $1,000 each on government. Yet by 1999, government cost every man, woman and child an average of more than $10,000 per year — more than housing and health care combined. The price went down a little after that, but then it started climbing again.

John leans to the Libertarian side of politics, but I’ve always liked his consumer affairs reporting on 20/20.  He hit this one on the head.

Hat tip to Rich Karlgaard and Digital Rules for the link.

Overtaxed in California,
Jonathan