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Taxation
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Tax What You Didn't Make
The rent is unearned and the booth is real. This part names the levy that takes the toll and leaves the town: a tax on the site, never on the house, never on the wage. The hard case is not the speculator. It is the family that bought last …
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Purse and Sword
Congress holds the two powers that are most of what a government is: the purse and the sword, the power to tax and spend and the power to make war. It has handed both away, to the executive and to a tax with no ceiling. The second draft …