April 3, 2009
Deseret News (UT) Editorial Board Features Tax Freedom Day
By Deseret News Editorial Board
The Tax Foundation issues a Freedom Day calculation for each year back to 1900, when it fell on Jan. 22. If this list proves anything, it is that temporary, emergency tax measures are anything but. Freedom day jumped to February during World War I, but it never again fell back to January. It leapt into March during the Depression and shot into April during World War II and the Korean conflict, never to return again. Since then, it peaked on May 3 in 2000 but was pushed back again by tax cuts. The clear trend is a steady two-steps-forward-one-step-back progression.
