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"How an Economy Grows and Why It Doesn't" by Irwin Schiff. http://www.scribd.com/doc/8009736/Irwin-Schiff-How-an-Economy-Grows-and-Why-It-Doesnt http://www.scr
by Towle_ 16y ago
"How an Economy Grows and Why It Doesn't" by Irwin Schiff.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/8009736/Irwin-Schiff-How-an-Economy-Grows-and-Why-It-Doesnt http://www.scribd.com/doc/8009736/Irwin-Schiff-How-an-Econom...
- frognibble 16y agoIrwin Schiff's sons recently wrote "How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes", a book inspired by their father's book.
- Shmulkey 16y agoThe author is currently doing time for refusing to pay income taxes. A crank, IMHO.
- loganfrederick 16y agoAnd yet his son has been considered one of the celebrities of the economic crisis for predicting it so well and profiting from it. The line between crank and brilliant is blurry.
- frognibble 16y agoAlthough his son predicted the crisis, he might not have profited from it. Part of his investment strategy was based on the assumption that the US economy would decouple from the rest of the world. As it happened, foreign investments were also hammered in the crisis.
- adamcrowe 16y agoA very wise and knowledgeable man, IMHO.
- dpatru 16y agoThroughout history people have refused to submit to immoral government controls and have suffered the consequences. They are to be admired by people who aspire to be free. The income tax is an assertion that government owns the work of its citizens and has a right to take as much of it as it wants. The majority of citizens accept this claim because they don't want to be fined, imprisoned, or otherwise mistreated. Taxpayers are slaves on the government plantation, forced to work for the government. When a slave protests and is punished, he should not be called a crank by the other slaves.
- Shmulkey 16y agoI rest my case.
- mkramlich 16y agoYou are aware that government provides services in exchange for those taxes, right?
- dpatru 16y agoAmong the "services" that (American) government provides: Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (countries that have not attacked us), military spending equal to what the rest of the world combined spends, social security and medicare (ponzi schemes in which workers today are forced to finance the retirement and healthcare of the elderly with no realistic expectation that their own retirement and healthcare will be similarly provided for), and of course law enforcement and prisons (a large part of which is devoted to punishing non-violent drug "crimes," i.e., people using illegal drugs themselves or suppling them to those who want to buy them). Providing services does not justify the income tax, even if those services were useful or moral, which they are generally not (see above). The mafia and private slave owners also provide services (protection and employment) but this does not justify their robbery. The sixteenth amendment to the American Constitution was only ratified in 1913. Somehow America survived until then without a general income tax.