Did Jesus Give Us Our Individualism?
…pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, attending to this very thing. The state has not always been happy, however, with being a mere instrument of the ‘Sky…
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I’m Classical Protestant. What’s ‘Solidarity’?
…my taxes as an act of philanthropy or charity. It is my fee for enjoying the protections of the state, good and bad. And if a small bit of my…
California’s Trump-like Moment, 22 Years Before Trump: The Adventures of Pete Wilson
…were split into ever lower taxes fiscal ‘conservatives’, and deficit hawk ‘moderates’, the latter being pretty much run out of the party after Reagan], and foreign policy hawks. What it…
An Addendum to the Manifesto: My Youth as a Deficit Hawk – Howard Ahmanson
…outrageous legal systems [of which I still feel the burden] to avoid paying these actual taxes. When I was in college, I moderated – I came to sort of understand…
Asset Forfeiture
…I suppose, like taxes. To convict you of a drug crime the government has to prove something; but in a civil case between you and the government the statutory law…
The Parallel Structures of Criminal and Civil Law, and the Hole in the Bill of Rights
…case is taxes. Because it is not a ‘crime’ to owe taxes to the government necessarily, the government does not have to prove that you owe it taxes – you…
The Gasoline Tax: Charles Krauthammer Breaks with Republican Orthodoxy
Charles Krauthammer, generally regarded as a conservative writer, declared more than a year ago that he had been for a gasoline tax increase of $1 a gallon for 32 years….
Rich Kid at Work – Interview: Howard Ahmanson, Jr.
…who exist so the rest of us can be spared the burden of contributing to the community through either philanthropy or taxes. Much “soak the rich” talk, then, is based…
Which Taxes to Raise – A Revision
…tax rates, a ‘split roll’ [because commercial property taxes, unlike residential ones, are de facto local income taxes on rents or income, because that is what determines the value of…
The Upper Middle Class Versus the 1%?
Matt Miller, Californian commentator, comments in his book The Tyranny of Dead Ideas that it probably will be the upper middle class, or ‘lower upper’ as he calls it, that…