Steyn: US income tax becoming ‘jizya’ for big government

And excellent analogy on the income tax from Mark Steyn’s book After America: Get Ready for Armageddon:

United States income tax is becoming the twenty-first-century equivalent of the “jizya”–the punitive tax levied by Muslim states on their non-Muslim citizens. In return for funding the Caliphate, the infidels were permitted to carry on practicing their faith. Under the American jizya, in return for funding Big Government, the non-believers are permitted to carry on practicing their faith in capitalism, small business, economic activity, and the other primitive belief systems to which they cling to so touchingly.