https://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2013/02/18/hey-lets-celebrate-the-income-tax/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usTue, 09 Jun 2026 04:22:47 -0400<![CDATA[Instead, beginning with the New Deal, liberals promised both low individual tax burdens and economic security for the rising middle class. They also divorced what postwar liberalism did best — providing economic security and mobility to the majority of Americans — from the burden of taxation. Social Security’s chief architects sold it as a plan for “organized and intelligent thrift” funded by “contributions,” rather than by taxes. The recipients of veterans’ benefits, farm subsidies or tax breaks to buy a home, pay for health insurance or reduce college costs were, and continue to be, honored as “taxpayers.” Meanwhile, beneficiaries of welfare, food stamps and Medicaid were and are demeaned as parasitical “tax eaters” and “takers.”&#8230;]]>Mon, 18 Feb 2013 13:50:30 -0500<![CDATA[Allahpundit]]>https://hotair.com/headlines/2013/02/18/hey-lets-celebrate-the-income-tax-n100234