The Sociology of Taxation

February 24, 2006 3:21 PM by Weekend Edition (Archive)

In this excerpt from his new book, Hans-Hermann Hoppe shows how taxation corrupts the political culture and harms social well being. The solution is the private property ethic — the idea that private property is a just institution and the only means of creating economic prosperity, and the view of the state as an outcast institution that is destructive of wealth formation. Ideas have changed in the past and can change again in the future. FULL ARTICLE