Income tax, socialist? The commissioner had it right.

Here's an interesting quote from 1956. T. Coleman Andrews, Commissioner of Internal Revenue hits it on the head when he says...

"I don't like the income tax. Every time we talk about these taxes we get around to the idea of 'from each according to his capacity and to each according to his needs'. That's socialism. It's written into the Communist Manifesto. Maybe we ought to see that every person who gets a tax return receives a copy of the Communist Manifesto with it so he can see what's happening to him."

-- T. Coleman Andrews
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Source: May 25, 1956 in US. News & World Report

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