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How workers – not companies – are bearing the growing burden of government

  • Written by Jay L. Zagorsky, Economist and Research Scientist, The Ohio State University

Tax day is here once more, and tens of millions of Americans will rush to file their income taxes by this year’s deadline of April 18 (rather than April 15 for a variety of reasons).

Although most of us probably identify the federal income tax with the revenue that ultimately fills the goverment’s coffers and allows it to spend our...

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