Legal System

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Recorded 10/15/2004 at Radical Scholarship: The Guerrilla Movement for Liberty.

Recorded 10/15/2004 at Radical Scholarship: The Guerrilla Movement for Liberty.  

Recorded 10/15/2004 at Radical Scholarship: The Guerrilla Movement for Liberty.

Recorded 10/16/2004 at Radical Scholarship: The Guerrilla Movement for Liberty.

The dedication of Restoring the Lost Constitution, "To James Madison and Lysander Spooner," at once alerts us that we confront an unusual book. 

Last year, the governor of Alabama proposed and then overwhelmingly lost a bitter referendum to increase taxes and boost revenue. Voters rightly saw the campaign as a slick attempt to expand the public sector’s power, prestige, and wealth transfers by increasing the degree of legal plunder in Alabama’s tax system.

In a lifeboat situation, writes Murray Rothbard, we apparently have a war of all against all, and there seems at first to be no way to apply our theory of self-ownership or of property rights.

Everything we have heard from conventional wisdom regarding the minimum wage is false, writes Shawn Ritenour.

Does liberty sow the seeds of its own destruction? Yes, by consenting to excessive taxes. Government will not want to give up the power. Taxes were to be only for common defense, not offensive wars.