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Louis XIV: "Everything the citizens have is mine." Treasury Secretary Rubin, 1998: the government is "letting you keep some" of your money. Same philosophy, three centuries apart. Charles Adams traced the line from the Sun King to the IRS.

Recorded at the Mises Institute Supporters Summit in Palm Springs, California, February 27-28, 1998.

This Tax Day, as the American public reflects on what our government is using our money for, there is growing opposition to the behavior of the Israeli government. Yet we’re all still forced to send it some of our hard-earned tax dollars. Enough.

Read the article here: https://mises.org/mises-wire/american-people-should-not-be-forced-fund-israels-atrocities

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While Tax Freedom Day is mid-April, Rothbard’s measure of the government’s fiscal burden reveals that Americans don’t truly start working for themselves until June 5, over seven weeks later.

Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/tax-freedom-day-underestimates-how-long-you-work-government

It took centuries to end the idea that taxes kept the privileged class in comfort and financed their wars. But now we’re told taxes = civilization.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-daily/taxation-robbery

The only tax plan worth trusting is one that cuts an existing tax—not one that invents a new way to loot you.

Recorded 15 January 2005 at The Trouble with Taxation Conference, Charlottesville, Virginia.

Shakespeare knew it. Francis Bacon documented it. And Paul Cantor—who studied with Ludwig von Mises as a teenager—traced taxation's wreckage all the way from Henry VII's tax revolts to the death of John Keats. The perfect lecture for Tax Day.

Recorded 15 January 2005 at The Trouble with Taxation Conference, Charlottesville, Virginia.

There is no shortfall of liquidity in financial markets. In fact, there is so much that inflation has become a way of life for market participants. This is not a good thing.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/artificial-liquidity-brings-inflation-shocks

In this time of war and uncertainty, we should expect to see the prices of precious metals rise and fall and the only certainty will be uncertainty.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/precious-metals-work

All too often, judges allow sentiment to override the Constitution. While they might refer to a “living Constitution,” what they really mean is that they don’t permit the law to get in the way of their worldviews.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/danger-allowing-good-intentions-override-constitution

Mises described the problem, Hayek proposed the direction, Kirzner explains why the market will not stop. And the market, as so many times before, has already found the first step.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/ex-nihilo-no-more