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Searching for a fair tax? Fuhgedaboutit!

18 Sep

For decades, make that centuries, philosophers, economists, politicians and others have been searching for the Holy Grail of taxation, a “fair” tax.  And they all have failed.    Inasmuch as all taxes involve coercion, the very negation of liberty, taxation is no different from what a robber who says to his victims, ‘Your money or your life.”  In fact, taxation violates one of the fundamental tenets of the Judeo-Christian tradition, “Thou shall not steal.”  Thus, creating a fair, coercive tax is impossible.

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