Ayn Rand

The Morpheus Proposal



"As Beardsley Ruml pointed out in the 1930s, with the ability to issue currency, the government has no need to tax. It can print as much money as it would ever need. Therefore, in his view, the function of taxes such as the income tax and the inheritance tax, is not to fund the government or provide for constitutionally mandated functions. Instead, the function of these taxes, he wrote in his article for Foreign Affairs magazine, is the redistribution of wealth. From whom? From those capable of producing wealth"

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Why I am not an LP member



I am not a member. I quit the Libertarian Party because I gave up on politics. That is the same reason I part company with Objectivists at ARI. There is one choice: politics or the market.