The Highest Tax Increases Ever; State and local governments demand that their residents shut up and pay up during a recession — Jim Geraghty
We’ve seen a lot of anger about taxes at the tea parties and town-hall meetings this year, and observers might be forgiven for thinking that the federal government enacted income-tax increases the moment Obama was inaugurated. It did not, but Americans are governed by more than Washington, and while Obama has enacted only one major tax increase this year - raising the tobacco tax nearly 62 cents on a pack of cigarettes, to $1.01 - state and local governments have responded to the recession by essentially lifting up their citizens, turning them upside down, and shaking them until all their remaining pocket change falls out.
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