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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.

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.

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.

Here is another great lecture by Murray Rothbard: “Conservation and Property Right.

Part of the Authors Forum, presented at the Austrian Economics Research Conference.

According to Gary North, it is: why did economic growth compound, starting in the 1800s? There is no definitive answer yet.

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The great historian of classical liberalism Ralph Raico

AERC lectures on the Mises YouTube channel. Available so far: Robert Wenzel

This is according to Austrian economist G.P. Manish, paraphrasing the great economist W.H.