You don’t have to dig particularly deep, in the United States today, to find some striking similarities between today’s virulently anti-Obama “Tea Party” crowd — and the pols like Sarah Palin who egg them on — and the media darlings who birthed the “Tax Revolt” phenomenon back in the late 1970s.
The Tax Revolters burst onto the national scene amid an inflation-battered economy. They blamed “big government” for what ailed America, and they offered a simple remedy: cut taxes, everywhere. Lower taxes, they promised, would get average Americans back on track.
The Tea Party zealots have, like the Tax Revolters, also coalesced in tough economic times. They attack “big government,” too. They and their political enablers even make the same promises about taxes. What they don't do: talk about how those original Tax Revolt promises worked out.
In this week's Too Much, we do, with the help of two just-released studies that document just how revolting — for average Americans — the Tax Revolt has turned out to be. ... Read Too Much now, before it's too late!
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