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Rip-off: High Out-of-Pocket Social Costs are a Stealth Tax on the Middle Class and the Poor

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Rip-off: High Out-of-Pocket Social Costs are a Stealth Tax on the Middle Class and the Poor (via Moyers & Company)

Editor’s note: This is the third piece in a series looking at the fact that while Americans enjoy a lower overall tax burden than that of the citizens of other wealthy countries, we also pay four times as much as they do, on average, for out-of-pocket…

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