Taxes Are What We Pay for an Impoverished Society

All services that government provides can be privately provided goods and services. All voluntary arrangements are better than coercive ones. Anarchy is simply no rulers, but not no rules. Just start stripping government away.Recorded at the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 15 April 2013.

The myth of the fair tax is the myth of the just tax. Taxation is a coerced, not voluntary, exchange. It is false to say bureaucrats pay taxes. They consume taxes. They plunder. They are the tax eaters. The rest of us are tax payers. Taxes like money are never neutral to the market.Archived from the live Mises.tv broadcast, this lecture by Joe Salerno was presented at the Taxes Are What We Pay for an Impoverished Society seminar, hosted by the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 15 April 2013.

Taxes are not just wrong, they are destructive. It is highly questionable that private parties could not create goods and services that consumers want at higher quality and lower costs. Archived from the live Mises.tv broadcast, this lecture by Matt McCaffrey was presented at the Taxes Are What We Pay for an Impoverished Society seminar, hosted by the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 15 April 2013.

The parasite - the state - has to have a host. First there had to be production before there could be something to tax or steal. Kings waged dynastic wars requiring high taxation. Revolutions and secession resulted.Archived from the live Mises.tv broadcast, this lecture by Danny Sanchez was presented at the Taxes Are What We Pay for an Impoverished Society seminar, hosted by the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 15 April 2013.