COST OF GOVERNMENT IS PAID FOR TODAY

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Sunday, July 9, 1995

On May 6 Americans' incomes caught up with their tax payments to federal, state and local governments. The Tax Foundation named it Tax Freedom Day and proclaimed wages earned over the next six months as the laborers' own.

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