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Welcome to Keith's night. 
Don't tread on anyone and the 

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libertarian Institute. 
This is an interview by French 

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journalist. 
Nicholas. 

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Corey of Hans Hermann. 
Harbour. 

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Our taxes consistent with 
individual freedom and property 

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rights is a level of Taxation 
where it is, no more consistent.

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No taxes are never at no level 
of Taxation, consistent with 

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individual, freedom, and 
property rights taxes, or theft,

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the thieves, the state, and its 
agents and allies Troy. 

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Their very best to conceal. 
This fact, of course, but there 

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were simply no way around it. 
Obviously taxes are not normal, 

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voluntary payments for goods and
services because you are not 

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allowed to stop such payments. 
If you are not satisfied with 

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the product, you are not 
punished if you no longer by 

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Renault cars or Chanel perfume, 
but you are thrown in jail, if 

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you stop paying for government 
schools or universities or for 

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Mr. Sarkozy and his pump nor is 
it possible to construe taxes? 

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As normal rent payments, as they
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landlord because the French 
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of France and all Frenchmen. 
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The French state would have to 
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first that the state and no one 
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And second that it has a rental 
contract with every single 

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Frenchman concerning the use and
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property. 
No State, not the French, not 

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the German, Not The u.s. 
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can prove this, they have no 
documents to this effect and it 

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cannot present, any rental 
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Thus, there was only one 
conclusion taxation is theft and

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robbery by which one segment of 
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and riches itself at the expense
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Is it wrong to not pay taxes? 
No, given that taxes are theft. 

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IE a moral wrong. 
It cannot be wrong to refuse to 

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pay thieves or to lie to them 
regarding ones, taxable, income 

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or assets. 
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prudent or wise to do so, and 
not to pay taxes. 

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After all the state is the 
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Nietzsche, put it, and it can 
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you. 
If you do not obey, its 

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commands, but there can be no. 
Question that it is just not to 

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pay taxes. 
How do we know that a tax is? 

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Fair? 
Are there any criteria is 

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progressive tax better than a 
flat tax. 

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We know that no taxes, 
fair-weather Progressive or flat

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or proportional. 
How can Sefton robbery be fair? 

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The best tax is always the 
lowest tax yet. 

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Even the lowest tax is still a 
tax. 

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The best because lowest tax is a
head or poll tax. 

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It's where everyone pays the 
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Since even the poorest person 
must be able to pay this amount.

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Such attacks must be low. 
But even a head tax is still 

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theft and there was nothing fair
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A head tax does not treat 
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equality before the law for 
something happens with the tax 

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revenue. 
The salaries of all state 

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employees and dependents, like 
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Recipients are paid out of tax 
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accordingly. 
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pay. 
No taxes at all rather their 

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entire net income. 
After payment of their head, tax

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comes out of tax payments, and 
they are thus on net tax, 

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consumers, living off, income 
and wealth, stolen from others, 

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the tax producers. 
What is fair about one group of 

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people living parasitically on 
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group of people. 
Do all philosophers agree. 

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No, they don't. 
But that is hardly surprising. 

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Almost all professional 
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Nowadays are tax consumers. 
They do not produce any goods or

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services that they sell on the 
market to voluntarily buying or 

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not buying philosophy consumers.
As a matter of fact, as judge by

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actual consumer demand, the work
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philosophers, must be considered
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philosophers today are paid out 
of taxes. 

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They live off the money. 
Under confiscated from others. 

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If your livelihood depends on 
taxes, you will likely not 

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oppose the institution of 
Taxation on principled. 

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Grounds. 
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necessarily the case. 
Our Consciousness is not 

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determined by are saying Allah 
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However, any such opposition is 
not very likely indeed, as most 

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intellectuals, philosophers 
typically suffer from an 

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overinflated ego, they believed 
to do work of great importance 

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and and the fact that Society 
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accordingly, hence, if the issue
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ignored by them philosophers 
have been at the Forefront of 

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coming up with tortured attempts
of justifying, taxes of 

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masquerading theft, as something
good, and in particular, their 

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own tax-funded philosopher, 
salaries, Should philosophers 

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consider the economic efficiency
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simultaneously with its ethical 
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In order to speak of an action 
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It is necessary that we first 
Define a purpose. 

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IE a goal or an end. 
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efficient or inefficient. 
Only in light of a goal that is 

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assumed as given. 
It is the task of economists and

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so-called positive economics to 
determine which measures are 

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effective. 
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a given end. 
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If you want to bring about mass 
unemployment, then economics 

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tells you that it is efficient 
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let's say 100 euros per hour. 
On the other hand, if your goal 

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is to minimize unemployment, 
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That all minimum wage laws 
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economists, have nothing to say 
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desirability of the goals. 
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This is the task of the 
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To determine which goals are 
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goals are not the economist. 
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which means are efficient or 
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such justifiable goals, but as I
already indicated, the 

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philosophy profession simply has
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Its job philosophers. 
Give plenty of advice about what

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to do or what not to do of 
course, but their advice carries

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little or no, intellectual wait 
in almost all cases. 

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Is it is mere opinion expression
of personal tastes nothing more?

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If you employ more about the 
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their recommendations supposedly
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They have no such Theory. 
They can offer only some ad hoc 

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collection of personal value 
judgments, which typically does 

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not even fulfill the requirement
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Any theory of Justice worth. 
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the most fundamental fact of 
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The scarcity of goods. 
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IE the absence of super 
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scarcity. 
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have conflicts with each other. 
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scarce resource. 
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very same resource without 
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need for rules or norms. 
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conflict avoidance in the 
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Harmony of all interest, 
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Only if all scarce resources. 
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identifiable owner rather than 
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and in order to avoid conflict 
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on. 
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Justice must begin with a norm 
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The first original appropriation
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property, most of contemporary 
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unaware of any of this indeed. 
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that not even the fact of 
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fully comprehended. 
What then should be the goal of 

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tax policy. 
Redistribution equality to 

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diminish poverty. 
If taxes are theft, then, from 

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the point of view of Justice. 
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tax policy. 
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of tax policy. 
And tax reform is a discussion 

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among Thieves or Advocates of 
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Justice. 
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debate and dispute among them 
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how high and what is to be done.
The taxes IE, who should get how

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much of the stolen loot, but all
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beneficiaries of theft tend to 
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One thing, the greater amount of
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collecting it, the better things
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In fact, this is what, all 
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today. 
To choose tax rates and forms of

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Taxation, which maximize tax 
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All current discussions about 
tax reform in France and Germany

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in the US and elsewhere 
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certain forms of taxes such as 
wealth and inheritance taxes 

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should be introduced or abolish 
whether income should be tax 

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progressively or proportionally.
Whether capital gains should be 

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taxed as income or not, whether 
Todd indirect taxes, such as the

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value added tax. 
Should be substituted for direct

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taxes, etc. 
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And whether the rates of these 
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cut. 
They are never discussions about

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Justice. 
They are not motivated by any 

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principled opposition to 
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But by the desire to make 
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maximize, tax revenue, every tax
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That is not at a minimum Revenue
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only reforms that increase tax. 
Revenue are deemed a success. 

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I must ask again. 
How can anyone consider this 

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Fair? 
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view of tax consumers? 
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But from the Viewpoint of tax 
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pay taxes. 
It is certainly not good, but 

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worse than bad one. 
Last remark, on the economic 

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effects of Taxation. 
Every tax is a redistribution of

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wealth and income wealth. 
Income is forcibly taken from 

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their owners and producers and 
transferred to people who did 

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not own this wealth and did not 
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The future accumulation of 
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income are thus discouraged and 
the confiscation and consumption

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of existing wealth. 
And income is encouraged. 

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As a result Society will be 
poorer and as for the effect of 

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the eternally, popular, 
egalitarian proposal of taxing, 

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the rich to give to the poor. 
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does not reduce or alleviate 
poverty, but quite to the 

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contrary it increases poverty. 
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or become rich and be 
productive, and it increases the

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incentive to stay or become 
poor, and be unproductive, 

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should reach people be treated 
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Every person, rich or poor 
should be treated the same 

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before the law. 
There are rich people who are 

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rich without having to fraud. 
Or having stolen from anyone, 

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they are rich because they've 
worked hard, they've saved 

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diligently, they have been 
productive and they've shown 

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entrepreneurial Ingenuity. 
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Generations, such people should 
not only be left alone, but they

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should be praised as he arose. 
And there are rich people mostly

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from the class of political 
leaders in control of the state 

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apparatus and from state 
connected Elites of banking and 

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big business who are rich 
because they have been directly 

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engaged in or indirectly 
benefited from confiscation. 

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Theft trickery and fraud. 
Such people should not be left 

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alone. 
But instead be condemned and 

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despised as gangsters the same 
applies to poor people. 

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There are poor people who are 
honest people and therefore 

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should be left alone. 
They may not be heroes, but they

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deserve our respect. 
And there are poor people who 

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are Crooks and who should be 
treated as Crooks regardless of 

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their poverty. 
Thank you for watching Keith 

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Knight. 
Don't tread on anyone and the 

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libertarian Institute.