New essay. Conservatives like to moan about the poor not paying the taxes they “benefit” from. And libertarians like to correctly point out all the ways in which the poor are actually debilitated and harmed by such “benefits.” What both often miss, however, is that the poor in America are taxed heavily, if irregularly. When the poor are mulcted, it is just not called “taxation,” but instead “fines” and “fees”; and the collection is not handled by the I.R.S, but by the local “justice” system. In fact, the biggest “welfare queens” in any given municipality are not the “underclass,” as conservatives would have it, but rather the affluent cops, judges, prosecutors, and other officers of the court (so lauded by conservatives as “upstanding pillars of the community”) who parasitically subsist on revenue largely extracted from the local poor. William N. Grigg Robert Higgs Anthony Gregory
Posted on: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 20:14:53 +0000
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