Sin taxes breed criminality and contempt for the law. They give governments a financial incentive to foster the vice they profess to despise. They are tools of disingenuous paternalists and would-be prohibitionists. They are favored by political cowards who dare not raise taxes openly and honestly. Their enduring popularity amongst the political class is summed up in the maxim of the late Senator Russell B.Long (D-La.): “Don’t tax me. Don’t tax thee. Tax that fellow behind the tree.”
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3 comments:
It's an excellent paper indeed. You should make a new one for every democratic country on earth.
Thanks Christopher!
Excellent essay, Mr. Snowden. These so-called facts and figures put out by the statists, while repeated often enough, are drawing criticism as they widen their range of victims. your essay exposes their 'voodoo economics' in bold fashion.
Kudos.
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