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The Cold War and The Income Tax: A Protest

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In Edmund Wilson's The Cold War and The Income Tax, the leading twentieth century critic writes about his protest against the Internal Revenue Service.

Here, Wilson details his refusal to file income tax for nearly ten years and draws fascinating parallels between the Soviet Union and the Kafkaesque US tax system which, to Wilson's dismay, supports a nuclear weapons arms race.

"The truth is that the people of the United States are at the present time dominated and driven by two kinds of offic...