Oprah Winfrey apparently can't stand to pay her federal income taxes. Her accountants, Oprah has just revealed in a recent CNN interview, have taken to bringing her a shot of tequila along with her annual tax bill. She downs the tequila, then signs the check to Uncle Sam.
We can giggle, fairly freely, at Oprah's tax-time antics. In the grand scheme of things, her distaste for the income tax isn't going to tilt our national political discourse one way or another. After all, Oprah's only an entertainer, isn't she?
That’s what people used to say a generation ago about another wealthy entertainer who couldn’t stand to pay taxes. But all this week pundits and politicos will be celebrating the 100th anniversary of this entertainer’s birth — for good reason. He did tilt our nation’s political discourse.
This week, in Too Much, we explore just when his tilting started. ...
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