Another Way the Government Steals from Us
April 17, 2017
Income tax season may be over, but there is another way that government steals from us year round. According to the Census Bureau, “Americans paid a record of approximately $6,474,000,000 in total alcoholic beverage sales taxes in fiscal 2016.” This is up from 2015. And I don’t think this includes federal excise taxes on alcohol.
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.

