You say we’re not in a police state? Sure.
One inmate currently at Guantanamo was waterboarded 83 times. Was that because the torturer felt that the victim wasn’t forthcoming after 82 times? How many times would he waterboard a person who turned out to be totally innocent — 183 times? 283 times? When would he stop? Would he stop?
The Income Tax: The Root of all Evil
I recently finished a classic book written by a prolific thinker of the 1950’s in America called The Income Tax: Root of All Evil by Frank Chodorov.
I found the free epub version at Mises.org (http://mises.org/document/990) after reading an excerpt of it on LewRockwell.com (http://www.lewrockwell.com/chodorov/chodorov10.html) entitled “Taxation is Robbery”.
I must say, I was pleasantly surprised with how well the author has put this book together. Once you start it you find yourself not able to put it down. It reads like a manifesto against taxation and outlines why the violation of the fruit of one’s labor is the most disgusting of legalized theft. I kept thinking of Bastiat’s term of “legalized plunder” while Chodorov was laying down his arguments.
It’s not a particularly long book and an avid reader reader could get through it in a weekend. I read it over the course of about a week as I usually read two or three books simultaneously.
For those who have often pondered taxation and the 16th amendment, this book is a definite recommendation. For those that enjoy loosing money from their paychecks, then I would suggest something from Marx and Engels.
The transition from partial to complete socialism, from the New Deal to communism, will not be easy in this country, because the phrases of freedom still sound sweet to us. Given a state of war, or a constant threat of war, or even another depression, and the memories would be obliterated; we will ask for a savior and we will get communism. It will not be exactly what the Russians have; it will be an American version.
Frank Chodorov 1954, “The Income Tax: The Root of All Evil
Frank Chodorov 1954, “The Income Tax: The Root of All Evil
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