Free Market
Author:
Peter T. Calcagno
Online Publish Date:
The Free Market 17, no. 4 (April 1999) Taxes distort the price system and always alter behavior away from the free-market ideal. That is why, as J.B. Say said, the best tax is always the lowest tax. But in recent years, state and local governments have been using the tax system, along with direct subsidies of all sorts, to influence where