“The government says to the citizen: Your earnings are not exclusively your own; we have a claim on them, and our claim precedes yours; we will allow you to keep some of it, because we recognize your need, not your right; but whatever we grant you for yourself is for us to decide.” –Frank Chodorov, The Income Tax: Root of All Evil, Chapter 3 Sounds kind of like Marx’s theory of “subsistence wages,” doesn’t it?