"When you earn a dollar, your employer is taxed for paying you (payroll tax).
"You are then taxed before it hits your bank account (income tax).
"When you spend that dollar, it is taxed again (sales tax).
"If you decide to invest that dollar, you are taxed (capital gains tax).
"Even when you save that dollar—in your bank account or in your piggy bank—it is continually devalued (inflation tax) by Congress’s spending, borrowing, and money-printing addiction."
249 years later, we honor our Founders’ sacrifices — but today we’re not as free as we should be. 🇺🇸
Camouflaged in red, white, and blue is an uncomfortable truth: economic, regulatory, and civil chains bind us.
This Independence Day, let us recognize these chains — and resolve to break them.
Read my op-ed: 🔗👇