The Tactical Agreement Between the Rich and the Poor About Taxes

There's a tacit agreement that taxes are not necessarily bad thing if the tax system is designed in earnest to actually support the society. That said, I think though that as the things that government is supposed to do, right, pay for roads, build new airports under under right school construction, those kinds of public investments are becoming less and less. It becomes more difficult to see what we are getting for those taxes. And this really does sort of shift the burden from talking about what we get from government to what we're paying. But even in this post 1980 period, we can see support for certain kinds of taxes and a recognition that taxes are in Oliver Wendell Holmes' words, the price