- October 2, 2016
- 4:22 pm
- Raymond Benton Jr
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Taxes and Liberty
In view of all the brouhaha over Donald J. Trump’s taxes, and his claim that he is “smart” if he had not paid any, think about this. It comes from Adam Smith’s An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776), Book V, Chapter II, Part II, p. 927.
“Every tax … is to the person who pays it a badge, not of slavery but of liberty.”