Every Dollar You Earn, Accounted For: The Uncomfortable Truth About Government and Your Paycheck
Most Americans understand, in a general sense, that taxes take a significant portion of their earnings. Far fewer appreciate the full scale of what government extracts from the productive economy — or where those funds ultimately travel. A clear-eyed accounting of federal, state, and local taxation reveals a fiscal apparatus of staggering scope, and raises serious questions about whether citizens are receiving commensurate value for the wealth they surrender.