For local government bureaucrats around the country the Fifth Amendment has been stood on its head, with "public use" meaning any private use that generates more tax booty for city hall and "just compensation" meaning whatever the local government goons can steal the property for, writes Doug French.
Amazon has been sued by Cendant for violation of its patent for “System and Metho
Recorded 10/15/2004 at Radical Scholarship: The Guerrilla Movement for Liberty.
Recorded 10/16/2004 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.
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.
