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Word: sassetti (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rebellions-including, in some simplified versions of U.S. history, the violent tax protests that brought on the U.S. Revolution. In the light of such a past, there seemed a docile if grudging inevitability about the way most U.S. taxpayers shuffled in to pay up. Chicagoan Robert Sassetti. who as a public accountant has plenty of opportunity to observe taxpayers, thinks: "Most people now have a much more sober attitude toward income taxes than they used to have. They seem to want to support the Government.The nation is growing up to realize that we have a good thing here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The People: They Also Serve | 4/13/1962 | See Source »

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