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Americans Turned Against Taxes Because Taxes Were Unfair (Interview)

Joshua Mound is a doctoral candidate in history at the University of Michigan. At the 2014 annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians he spoke with HNN about the revolt against taxes that began in the Sixties after the media reported that Hollywood stars like Woody Allen barely paid any taxes at all.