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Taxes Make Us Happy

A while back I linked to this excellent essay by Tom Geoghegan in which he argued that the only way the government can make us happy is by raising our taxes. Counterintuitive you say? Well now comes actual, empirical evidence that he was on to something.

UPDATE: Link fixed, thanks to Ezra.

Christopher Hayes is the Washington, D.C. Editor of The Nation.

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