Volume 19, Number 2 · August 10, 1972
Homage to Daniel Shays
By Gore Vidal
Fat Cats and Democrats: The Role of the Big Rich in the Party of the Common Man
by G. William Domhoff
Prentice-Hall, 203 pp., $5.95
Bella! Ms. Abzug Goes to Washington
by Bella Abzug
Saturday Review Press, 320 pp., $7.95
The Washington Pay-off: An Insider's View of Corruption in Government
by Robert Winter-Berger
Lyle Stuart, 341 pp., $10.00
To govern is to choose how the revenue raised from taxes is spent. So far so good, or bad. But some people earn more money than others. Should they pay proportionately more money to the government than those who earn less? And if they do pay more money are they entitled to more services than those who pay less or those who pay nothing at all? And should those who pay nothing at all because they have nothing get anything? These matters are of irritable concern to our rulers, and of some poignancy to the rest.
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