One Human’s Taxation is a Tragedy; Three Hundred Million is a Statistic
An itemized receipt for taxes? How lovely and desirable! Think tank Third Way just issued a paper [PDF] analyzing what the median US taxpayer of 2009 (who earned $34,140 and paid $5,400 in federal...
View ArticleSupport C4SS with David Gross’s “Don’t Owe Nothin’”
C4SS has teamed up with the Distro of the Libertarian Left. The Distro produces and distribute zines and booklets on anarchism, market anarchist theory, counter-economics, and other movements for...
View Article“It’s Complicated,” or the Relationship of Market Anarchism with Taxes
This the fourth in a series of essays originally written by Alan Furth as assignments for an introductory course to market anarchism that he took at C4SS’s Stateless University. For the fifth essay,...
View Article“Es complicado”, o la relación del anarquismo de mercado con los impuestos
Ésta es la cuarta entrada de una serie escrita por Alan Furth como asignatura en un curso sobre introducción al anarquismo en el Centro para una Sociedad sin Estado (C4SS). Para la tercera entrada,...
View ArticleHow Much “Civilization” Does Your Tax Money Buy?
Tax Day, April 15, is traditionally the time of year when liberals trot out that old Oliver Wendell Holmes chestnut: “Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.” But what kind of...
View ArticleMike Gogulski Interviewed For RT
C4SS Technology Coordinator and Stateless Ex-American, Mike Gogulski, was recently interviewed for an RT segment covering former US Citizens that have renounced their citizenship for tax reason or, in...
View ArticleCould Katrina vanden Heuvel Please Just Shut Up?
Katrina vanden Heuvel, publisher of The Nation, is at it again, this time on Twitter (@KatrinaNation). This morning she tweeted: “Ginning up IRS story to make government seem like oppressor fits into...
View ArticleBetaal belasting of ga direct naar de gevangenis
Het is al anderhalve maand geleden dat Toine Manders, jurist en voormalig lijsttrekker van de Libertarische Partij, gearresteerd werd vanwege de bescherming die hij zijn klanten bood tegen diefstal....
View ArticlePay Taxes or Go Directly to Jail
It’s been more than a month since Toine Manders, tax consultant and former leader of the Dutch Libertarian Party, was arrested and jailed for protecting his clients from theft. Less than a week away...
View ArticleApril 15: Funding the Empire
Tax day, April 15th, is a day of celebration in the United States. On this day we citizens of the great republic take pride in the fact that we can come together in a democratic society and make...
View Article15 Aprile: Il Finanziamento dell’Impero
In America il 15 aprile, giorno della dichiarazione dei redditi, è una celebrazione. In questo giorno noi cittadini siamo orgogliosi di stare assieme in una società democratica e di prendere le...
View ArticleTax Day: What Kind of “Civilization” Are We Paying For?
April 15 seems to be a holiday of sorts for progressives, who inevitably trot out Oliver Wendell Holmes’s quote about taxes being “the price we pay for civilization,” and reminding us of all the great...
View Article“Tax Day: What Kind of ‘Civilization’ Are We Paying For?” on C4SS Media
C4SS Media presents Kevin Carson‘s “Tax Day: What Kind of “Civilization” Are We Paying For?” read by James Tuttle and edited by Nick Ford. Even if government did tax the plutocracy at 100% and give it...
View Article0.86% of US Population Receives 17.3% of US Income!
About 2,748,978 Americans are employees of the federal government. The population of the US is somewhere around 317,940,000. The federal government takes 17.3% of Gross Domestic Product in taxes. So...
View ArticleDenuncia dei Redditi: Che Genere di “Civiltà” Stiamo Finanziando?
Il quindici aprile sembra diventata una sorta di festività per i progressisti, che ogni volta inevitabilmente tirano fuori la frase di Oliver Wendell Holmes, secondo cui le tasse sono “il prezzo che...
View ArticleThe Weekly Libertarian Leftist And Chess Review 31
Patrick Cockburn discusses the bloody history of Baghdad. Kent Paterson discusses the challenging of a militarized police state. Medea Benjamin discusses the broken promises of Obama. Martha Rosenberg...
View Article“Economic Patriotism”: The Last Refuge of a Tax Scoundrel
In mid-July, US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew proposed that Congress prohibit US-based companies from moving offshore in search of more favorable tax climates, citing an ostensible need for a “new sense...
View ArticleRadical Libertarianism as a Form of Fiscal Liberalism and Mutual Aid...
American libertaranism has a reputation for being another species of that genus known as American conservatism. This is influenced by the American Libertarian’s penchant for lower taxation and less...
View Article“Patriottismo Economico”: L’Ultimo Rifugio di una Canaglia Fiscale
Attorno alla metà di luglio il segretario del Tesoro americano Jack Lew, citando il bisogno di un “nuovo senso di patriottismo economico”, ha proposto che il Congresso vieti alle compagnie con sede...
View ArticleThe State Has No Right To Do Anything
I often hear people make casual remarks like, “Well, the State has a right to collect taxes,” “the State has a right to punish criminals,” or “the State has a right to controls its borders.” Inside, I...
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