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US small businesses, collectively, are the largest employer of US citizens, especially at the margins of society where the author's "right to say no" is at its
by rrggrr 9y ago
US small businesses, collectively, are the largest employer of US citizens, especially at the margins of society where the author's "right to say no" is at its weakest. Its these small businesses, trying to accumulate wealth through property rights and rent-seeking, that would be disproportionately impacted were the author's philosophy to be adopted.
- int_19h 9y agoThe author's philosophy is not to prohibit rent-seeking, but to tax it appropriately. Given that it's currently taxed less than income from labor, I don't see what's so controversial about that notion.