Press, pundits, and elected officials—Left and Right—drum a message into our heads: “Americans hate taxes.” But Vanessa Williamson, fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution and author of the book Read My Lips: Why Americans Are Proud to Pay Taxes, says that the notion that Americans hate taxes “has become a truism without the benefit of being true.” Williamson’s research digs into a pervasive but largely buried alternative to...
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