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Tax Day

By Murray N. Rothbard

Posted on 4/13/2007

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This unsigned editorial, written by Murray N. Rothbard, appeared in the April 15, 1969 issue of

The Libertarian (soon to become The Libertarian Forum ).

April 15, that dread Income Tax day, is around again, and

gives us a chance to ruminate on the nature of taxes and of

the government itself.

The first great lesson to learn about taxation is that taxation is

simply robbery. No more and no less. For what is "robbery"?

Robbery is the taking of a man's property by the use of

violence or the threat thereof, and therefore without the

victim's consent. And yet what else is taxation?

Those who claim that taxation is, in some mystical sense,

really "voluntary" should then have no qualms about getting

rid of that vital feature of the law which says that failure to pay

one's taxes is criminal and subject to appropriate penalty.

But does anyone seriously believe that if the payment of

taxation were really made voluntary, say in the sense of contributing to the American Cancer Society, that any

appreciable revenue would find itself into the coffers of government? Then why don't we try it as an

experiment for a few years, or a few decades, and find out?

But if taxation is robbery, then it follows as the night the day that those people who engage in, and live off,

robbery are a gang of thieves. Hence the government is a group of thieves, and deserves, morally,

aesthetically, and philosophically, to be treated exactly as a group of less socially respectable ruffians would

be treated.

This issue of The Libertarian is dedicated to that growing legion of

Americans who are engaging in various forms of that one weapon,

that one act of the public which our rulers fear the most: tax

rebellion, the cutting off the funds by which the host public is

sapped to maintain the parasitic ruling classes.

"To force a man to pay for

the violation of his own

liberty is indeed an

addition of insult to injury.

But that is exactly what

the State is doing."

Benjamin R. Tucker, 1893

Here is a burning issue which could appeal to everyone, young

and old, poor and wealthy, "working class" and middle class,

regardless of race, color, or creed. Here is an issue which

everyone understands, only too well. Taxation.

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Murray N. Rothbard (1926 1995) was dean of the Austrian School. See his archive . Comment on the blog .

This unsigned editorial appeared in the April 15, 1969, issue of The Libertarian (soon to become The

Libertarian Forum ). In the same issue, available in PDF : "Tax Revolt in Wisconson," and Karl Hess's "Letter

from Washington: Tax Revolt."

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