Tax: Groping us long before the TSA - As Tax Day Passes, the Tax Grope Begins

It is evil control of outcome with our money and thievery that needs to be stopped! We need to stand up to it and resist it before confiscation becomes the norm. Obama is rubbing his greedy hands together already! m/r

As Tax Day Passes, the Tax Grope Begins - Bloomberg
By Amity Shlaes Apr 15, 2013 

First comes Tax Day, then comes the Tax Grope.

That is the attitude of Americans toward tax authorities. Citizens have resigned themselves to the new rates, official and public, that will apply this year to long-agreed-upon definitions of taxable income. Traditional income is fair game.

The taxpayer is alert, though, to something else: future arbitrary impingement by a tax authority in an unexpected way. Sometimes the intrusion comes from an expected party, more uncomfortable and irritating than fatal. But sometimes, the intrusion shocks either by its scale or because it comes as a total surprise.

The grope image goes back to the revolutionary pamphleteer Thomas Paine, who wrote of “the Greedy Hand of government.” Back in the 1960s the business writer John Brooks sketched out the grope concept further, writing of the intruding taxing authority approaching as an unwanted suitor, with a “ghastly expression of benignity.”

The most obvious recent grope has been overseas: the garnishment of bank accounts in Cyprus. 

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