Paying Taxes to Your Boss

Let's say that you drive a truck for the Colorado Looting Corporation. The state deducts income tax from your pay check twice a month, and some of that cash is then sent over to the Colorado Looting Corporation as a subsidy. You are paying taxes to your boss.

There are 22 such programs in place in 16 states.What we have here is a direct method of transferring wealth from working people to more deserving corporate oligarchs, and it has the added virtue of going unnoticed. There is nothing on the pay stub of the worker to indicate where the income tax cash is headed. The worker might believe that his taxes are spent on schools and road repairs. Instead the money goes for cocaine, call girls, and a corporate board dining at $400 a plate in a restaurant so exclusive it has no name and employs an English food boiler as its chef. That's life in these United States.