Historical roots of American attitudes to taxation

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Here are a few articles that explore the relation between racism (initially slavery) and opposition to taxation in the United States. The rub is that slaveholding elites (and later on the Redeemers) have in the long run succeeded in cementing anti-black attitudes that still influence ideological resistance to normal levels of taxation compared to other OECD countries. It makes for some pretty grim reading.

www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/194876.html

bostonreview.net/class-inequality/marshall-steinbaum-book-explains-charlottesville