Dr. David Gordon explains why the leading philosophical defenses of taxation—from Rawls’s difference principle to Nagel & Murphy’s “myth of ownership”—collapse, and why natural rights still say taxation is theft.Sponsored by Jane Shaffer, in Memory of Butler Shaffer.Recorded at the Mises Supporters Summit in Delray Beach, Florida, on October 17, 2025.

Dr. David Gordon explains why the leading philosophical defenses of taxation—from Rawls’s difference principle to Nagel & Murphy’s “myth of ownership”—collapse, and why natural rights still say taxation is theft. Sponsored by Jane Shaffer, in Memory of Butler Shaffer. Recorded at the Mises Supporters Summit in Delray Beach, Florida, on October 17, 2025.

Dr. David Gordon explains why the leading philosophical defenses of taxation—from Rawls’s difference principle to Nagel &amp; Murphy’s “myth of ownership”—collapse, and why natural rights still say taxation is theft.Sponsored by Jane Shaffer, in Memory of Butler Shaffer.Recorded at the Mises Supporters Summit in Delray Beach, Florida, on October 17, 2025.&nbsp;

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