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Einstein: ‘the hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax’

Einstein: ‘the hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax’

Susannah Camic in the Yale Review of Books on The Great Tax Wars: From Lincoln to T.R. to Wilson: How the Income Tax Transformed America by Steven Weismann.  

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