Opinion: Taxes aren’t the government playing Robin Hood — they repay what previous generations invested in you

Opinion: Taxes aren’t the government playing Robin Hood — they repay what previous generations invested in you

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Think of the GI Bill or the tax breaks for saving for retirement

20th Century Fox/Courtesy Everett Collection Everyone hates paying taxes. But many wrongly think that taxes are primarily about redistributing income from the rich to the poor with the state acting like an erstwhile Robin Hood.In fact, most of what government does is transfer income over our own lives – taxing us when we are working adults and supporting us when we are young and old. A clever child cannot go to the bank and ask for a loan to pay for schooling, promising […]

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