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  • Joseph Sobran: New York and "National Service"

    11/26/2003 7:28:02 PM PST · by Theodore R. · 3 replies · 206+ views
    Joseph Sobran column ^ | 11-11-03 | Sobran, Joseph
    November 11, 2003 New York leads the country again, paying $141 per thousand dollars of personal income in state and local taxes. This is 72 per cent more than the national average, according to a new Citizens Budget Commission study. New York has been traditionally liberal — meaning, in practice, that it has been dominated by rapacious pressure groups, each seeking to live off the taxpayer. It illustrates Frédéric Bastiat’s description of government as the system through which everyone attempts to live at the expense of everyone else. Even if your self-respect prevents you from being part of the greedy...