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Jeff Jacoby

An uncivil income tax system

By Jeff Jacoby

 |  Globe Columnist  

  April 04, 2012

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.’s famously said that “taxes are what we pay for civilized society.’’ But would Holmes, who retired from the Supreme Court in 1932, see anything civilized about what the federal tax system has turned into, or the burdens, confusions, and complexity it imposes on honest taxpayers.

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