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Mises Daily Monday: Extorting Low-Income Individuals to Help “the Poor”

Mises Daily Monday by Gary Galles: 

Many poverty relief laws and policies are premised on the assumption that only “the rich” will bear the costs. In fact, the incomes and well-being of many low-income individuals are taxed and diminished to benefit a nebulous group known as “the poor.”

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