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Friday, April 15, 2005
Progress
H.L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949; rpt. New York: Vintage Books, 1982), p. 623:
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.