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J. Bracken Lee

Bracken Lee (1899–1996) was governor of Utah (1949–1957) and a leading opponent of the income tax. Murray Rothbard praised him in The Betrayal of the American Right, calling him “the closest thing to a libertarian in political life.”

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The Income Tax Really Is Evil

08/10/2022 Mises Daily J. Bracken Lee

Only by repealing the Sixteenth Amendment can freedom from an interventionist government be restored to the American people.

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