2/16/2006

How do libertarians feel about taxes?

Americans already obtain a host of services from private providers. There is every reason to think that other services, from postal delivery to education to road building and maintenance, could be provided more efficiently and at lower cost by the private sector.

We should support all moves to reduce and repeal taxes because taxes are obtained immorally, by force. The income tax is particularly evil, since it penalizes productivity and forces all of us to expose our private affairs to government snoopers.

We had no income tax before 1914 and America prospered. Replacing the income tax with voluntary methods for financing services should be our goal, and we should begin right now.
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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

So, as I understand, there should be no taxes for roads, water sewer, and emergency servicse??
That reminde me of an old commercial involving an auto mechanic saying "pay me now or pay me later".

Anonymous said...

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Vote Libertarian; The Party for Social Misfits.

JPN said...

There were income taxes after the Revolutionary War and after the Civil War. The income taxes came back in 1914 because the US government had sold of most of the continental US -- its main source of government financing.

"Pay me now or pay me later" doesn't work for them. It's never pay you because that is immoral.