Trickling Down: How the Anti-Tax Movement Hijacked America (with Michael Graetz)

Benjamin Franklin once quipped that the only two certainties in life are death and taxes. (The more solipsistic mega-rich, it might be noted, often try to cheat both.) In other, less clever words, taxes are inevitable. That's how I've always thought about taxes: they are just something that, as a dutiful citizen of the State of New York and the United States of America, I have to do every spring. I'd spend an afternoon poring over 1099s, W-2s, and credit card statements, and send the results to my accountant. If I was lucky-and I usually was-I'd get a nice check ...