Friedman helped create the withholding tax he later condemned
Evidence
Friedman later expressed “no apologies,” citing the fact that at the time they “were concentrating on the war.” The withholding tax entered his pantheon of government programs that were useful when implemented but problematic once entrenched. — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion, 416
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the broader MPS narrative of intellectuals legitimizing then critiquing wartime state expansion — parallels the acceptance-then-dismantling of New Deal/wartime institutional legacy. — connects to: In the 1960s even Milton Friedman endorsed basic income redistribution