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Policy

Tax Day Jukebox

Jesse Walker | 4.15.2008 5:08 PM

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In honor of April 15, here's a populist classic from Johnny Paycheck: "Me and the IRS."

In the interest of fairness and equal time, I should acknowledge that the taxes Mr. Paycheck disdains are needed to pay for important government programs. Here's a song about one of those.

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Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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