Professor Larry Zelenak reads voraciously and writes passionately and he joins us to discuss both. We talk about the books he’s written, the books his written about and lots more. Learn why Treasury Secretary Andrew W. Mellon believed “the fairness” of taxing wages at a lower rate than capital income was “beyond question” and why some people just might actually love Form 1040. And most importantly, learn what it takes to make an elevator pitch about the value of fiscal citizenship.

Zelenak also answers a pencil question from an article by Richard Musgrave about the Investment Tax Credit (a hat tip to Professor Ajay Mehrotra at Northwestern and the Americana Bar Foundation).