Taxes and the Black Hole of Government Spending

Tags: Big Government, Taxes and Spending

04/16/2013 Matthew McCaffrey

Taxes are not just wrong, they are destructive. It is highly questionable that private parties could not create goods and services that consumers want at higher quality and lower costs. Archived from the live Mises.tv broadcast, this lecture by Matt McCaffrey was presented at the Taxes Are What We Pay for an Impoverished Society seminar, hosted by the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 15 April 2013.

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