Taxes and Spending

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Murray N. Rothbard
Any policy that draws unanimous support from "right-thinking" people can’t be all good. There must be a catch somewhere.
Bruce Bartlett

Wealth and the inequality it breeds are central to the functioning of our entire economic system.

Alexander Tabarrok

A standard theorem in neoclassical public finance holds that income taxes are preferred to equal revenue excise taxes. Herbener (1988) rejects this theorem.

Murray N. Rothbard
Rothbard argues that all government activities necessarily divert incomes, resources, and assets from the market, and therefore that the quest for a neutral tax or expenditure policy is an impossible one and the concept a myth.
James Fogal

Here is a Wall Street Journal article (July 6, 2005; Page B1) about Jack McCall, who won an America

Laurence M. Vance

Did you have to write out a check to the IRS for $5,581 this past April 15? If you had to do such a thing next year, would you think of it as your civic duty or would you consider it a crime that only the government could get away with?

Why does the scope of the state always enlarge? Michael S. Rozeff suggests a theory based on the the incentives of those who possess the power to tax.