Commentary
Governor Ron DeSantis has a theory about those 87,000 new tax collectors, some of whom will be armed, as unleashed by the latest legislative triumph of the monopoly party ruling Washington today. He believes that they will be political agents. They will target the middle class in particular, with the hopes of punishing those people who dared vote for the other party.
The theory is not crazy. Tax collection in the whole of human history has always been about politics as much as it is about state finance. If the party in power can enlist a brutal gang of bandits on the public with the legal right to seize as much as they can find, they will do so. They always have….