Taxes Are What We Pay for an Impoverished Society

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Panel Discussion

Taxes and SpendingAustrian Economics Overview

04/17/2013Mises Media
All services that government provides can be privately provided goods and services. All voluntary arrangements are better than coercive ones. Anarchy is simply no rulers, but not no rules.
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Taxes and History

Taxes and SpendingU.S. HistoryWorld History

04/16/2013Mises Media
The parasite - the state - has to have a host. First there had to be production before there could be something to tax or steal. Kings waged dynastic wars requiring high taxation. Revolutions and secession resulted.
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Taxes and the Black Hole of Government Spending

Big GovernmentTaxes and Spending

04/16/2013Mises Media
Taxes are not just wrong, they are destructive. It is highly questionable that private parties could not create goods and services that consumers want at higher quality and lower costs.
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The Myth of a Fair Tax

Big GovernmentTaxes and Spending

04/16/2013Mises Media
The myth of the fair tax is the myth of the just tax. Taxation is a coerced, not voluntary, exchange. It is false to say bureaucrats pay taxes. They consume taxes. They plunder. They are the tax eaters. The rest of us are tax payers.
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