“The fact of the matter is, our taxation system is a voluntary system.”
This is completely absurd, and just goes to show how twisted round in circles, blind, and out of touch with reality our political leaders have become.
This is the Senate majority leader we’re talking about here, not some crackpot nobody. The fact that he [...]
Found on the street in downtown manhattan:
From a recent Daily Reckoning article:
“If you had purchased $1000 of shares in Delta Airlines one year ago, you would have $49.00 today.
“If you had purchased $1000 of shares in AIG one year ago, you would have $33.00 today.
“If you had purchased $1000 of shares in Lehman Brothers one year ago, you would have $0.00 [...]
I heard something similar to this at a quaker meeting a while back. What would you do in the following situation?
You’re standing at the bottom of a mountain, by a railroad track. The track comes down off the mountain to a fork. One branch of the fork goes directly off a cliff into a deep [...]
As tax season rolls around again, it’s a great opportunity for principled libertarians to carefully consider their relationship to taxes. I like to compute the percentage of my income that goes to taxes. For most working people, that’s somewhere between 25 and 40 percent or more (not including sales taxes). When you get on up [...]
Just in case you need another reason to become a libertarian:
(I know some of my family with slow tubers reads this blog, so here’s an article covering the issue.)