[This unsigned editorial, written by Murray N. Rothbard, appeared in the April 15, 1969, issue of The Libertarian (soon to become The Libertarian Forum ).] April 15, that dread Income Tax day, is around again, and gives us a chance to ruminate on the nature of taxes and of the government itself. The first great lesson to learn about taxation is
The libertarian movement has been chided by William F. Buckley, Jr., for failing to use its “strategic intelligence” in facing the major problems of our time. We have, indeed, been too often prone to “pursue our busy little seminars on whether or not to demunicipalize the garbage collectors” (as Buckley has contemptuously written), while ignoring
In the course of his interesting discussion of “The Politics of Political Economists,” Professor Stigler challenges the alleged view of Professor Mises that “economic statistics, or more generally quantitative economics — generates a radical political viewpoint.” Stigler asserts that the empirical student acquires a “real feeling” for the
An audio version of this Mises Wire is available here . The key issue in the entire discussion is simply this: shall the parent or the State be the overseer of the child? An essential feature of human life is that, for many years, the child is relatively helpless, that his powers of providing for himself mature late. Until these powers are fully
[ The Standard , Abril de 1963, pp. 2-5; 15-16] El movimiento libertario ha sido reprendido por William F. Buckley, Jr., por no utilizar su “inteligencia estratégica” al enfrentarse a los grandes problemas de nuestro tiempo. Realmente hemos tendido demasiado a “dedicar nuestros atareados pequeños seminarios a si hay que desmunicipalizar o no la
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