Who thought up employer withholding? I asked.

A reader: “Was that a rhetorical question? As ten thousand others have no doubt already told you, it was Milton Friedman. And to his last day his wife Rose gave him bloody hell over it.”

[Me] Right, that’s what it was–rhetorical. (If you work for a conservative magazine, and betray that there is ANYTHING you don’t know about Milton Friedman, they lock you doen in the punishment box for 24 hours with an audiobook of “Free to Choose.”)