For your holiday reading pleasure while recovering from too much turkey, a
thought-provoking article on the nature and ubiquity of taxation.  In a
nutshell, "more taxation always equals less freedom."

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http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=4028

"Taxes today are everywhere, and everywhere accepted.  Seen and unseen, they are
collected at every level of government on virtually every economic transaction
that takes place: income taxes, phone and cable line taxes, fuel taxes, auto
registration taxes, sales taxes, school taxes, property taxes, and many fees,
tolls, and other non-tax impositions - the list goes on and the burden
increases.  Where is the outrage?  Today it is all quiet on the taxpayer front. Why?

A partial explanation is that in simpler times the nature of taxation was more
clearly understood by the taxpayer.  The power to tax was widely recognized and
feared as the dangerous and arbitrary power it is, the power to build and the
power to destroy, and, by its very nature, a limit on freedom...."