John D. Rockefeller

X.5: Make the Rich Pay Their Fair Share of Taxes?

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Politicians love to promise their constituents that if elected they will make the rich pay their fair share of taxes. They say they will raise the income tax rate for high income earners. And this promise will generally net many votes, and maybe even a little revenue, but the problem is it won’t make the … Read more

II.4: Liberty and Equality are Inseparable

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Many people hold the poisonous view that liberty and equality are opposites. Some see liberty and equality as “antithetical, not complementary and certainly not identical”. (Walker 1981, 138) It is true that total liberty would allow skilled people to rise above the unskilled, leading to inequality. And total equality would mean that skilled people would … Read more

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