The good news that tax audits and property seizures are down obscures a more important point: by slow degrees, step by step, the tax man in America has gained total control over everyone's economic life.
Charles Adams
Charles Adams (1930-2013) was an attorney in private practice and a specialist in international taxation. He wrote extensively on taxes and their impact on civilization, for outlets including the New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal. He was also an adjunct scholar at the Mises Institute and the Cato Institute. Among other books he was the author of For Good and Evil: The Impact of Taxes on the Course of Civilization.
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8. The Civil War
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9. American Taxation
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10. Learning from the Past: What History Teaches
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2. The Bible’s World of Taxes
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3. The Kaleidoscopic Romans
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4. The Middle Ages
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5. The Swiss: From William Tell to No Tell
