TO THE EDITOR:
Mr. Lozzi’s Thursday piece “Who really owns our work” brings up the interesting correlation of taxes and slavery.
Specifically, because we pay 25 percent of our annual salary to taxes, the government owns us for 25 percent of the year.
Just as a historical note, tax rates in the US have been as high as 94 percent on high-income earners during wartime.
No one likes taxes, but this comparison simply does not work.
You could just as easily argue that all of your expenditures enslave you to outside forces.
Should we rail against the grocery stores or our landlord with equal zeal as we do against the government?
And unlike slavery, where the slave gets no value from the relationship, our taxes are not taken without return.
They pay for all manner of public services such as police, roads, clean water and air, and yes, even low-interest student loans.
