GOOD AND HARD: “Millennials beware — a [Massachusetts] committee charged with revamping the state’s tax code is eyeing music downloads and streaming services.”

Since, “70% percent of Millenials say they are more likely to vote socialist” according to a Dow Jones MarketWatch column published on Monday, presumably, they won’t mind this. Or perhaps, they’ll eventually discover, as P.J. O’Rourke wrote in his 1995 book, Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut, when he began his first job after college…

It wasn’t much of a job. I was a messenger. But it brought in $150 a week and that was wealth as far as I was concerned. We were paid fortnightly. I waited greedily for my $300. But when my pay envelope arrived I found, after federal, state, and city taxes had been deducted and social security, health insurance, and pension plan payments had been made, only $160 was left. I began yelling. “I’m a revolutionary! I’ve been a revolutionary since I went to college! I’ve demonstrated! I’ve rioted! I’ve done everything I could to overthrow capitalism! And what do I find when I get my first paycheck from a capitalist company? COMMUNISM!!!” Of course, it was several years before the implications of what I yelled sank in. At that age I wasn’t listening to anyone, myself included.

Siri: What is corporatism?

(Classical reference in headline.)