Investor's Business Daily: Tax Day's Forgotten Lesson
<b>Originally printed in Investors' Business Daily, April 15th, 2011</b>
Monday is Tax Day, when we collectively "celebrate" the passage of the 16th Amendment. If we want to identify a single catalyst for the growth of the federal government, this would be a prime candidate.
When the amendment was conceived, few could have imagined how dramatically it would empower the growth of government — and the extraordinary influence it would exert over economic growth and job-creation.