A messy business

摘要

She was the unlikeliest of tax protesters: a 51-year-old product of Catholic schools, a moderate Republican who crossed lines to vote for Bill Clinton, a real-estate agent in New Mexico who wasn't even aware that antitax rebels existed until a couple of years ago. But when Karen Kline filed and paid her federal taxes for 1984 —a year in which she earned less than $11,000-she trig- gered a chain of events that helped steal her livelihood and shake her faith in government.