Lecture series · recorded 2013
Taxes Are What We Pay for an Impoverished Society
Taxes Are What We Pay for an Impoverished Society is a free lecture series (4 recordings, 2 hours) you can stream or download at freecapitalists.org, with 3 speakers.
A one-day seminar for high school students and anyone concerned about the heavier and heavier tax burden. Recorded in Auburn, Alabama, on 15 April 2013.
Big GovernmentTaxes and SpendingU.S. HistoryWorld History
Cover painting: the boy king Richard II meets Wat Tyler and the poll-tax rebels at Smithfield, 15 June 1381. See every painting in the art gallery.
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The Myth of a Fair Tax 2013
The myth of the fair tax is the myth of the just tax. Taxation is a coerced, not voluntary, exchange. It is false to say bureaucrats pay taxes. They consume taxes. They plunder. They are the tax eaters. The rest of us are tax payers.
Big GovernmentTaxes and Spending
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Taxes and the Black Hole of Government Spending 2013
Taxes are not just wrong, they are destructive. It is highly questionable that private parties could not create goods and services that consumers want at higher quality and lower costs.
Big GovernmentTaxes and Spending
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Taxes and History 2013
The parasite - the state - has to have a host. First there had to be production before there could be something to tax or steal. Kings waged dynastic wars requiring high taxation. Revolutions and secession resulted.
Taxes and SpendingU.S. HistoryWorld History
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Panel Discussion 2013
All services that government provides can be privately provided goods and services. All voluntary arrangements are better than coercive ones. Anarchy is simply no rulers, but not no rules.
Austrian Economics OverviewTaxes and Spending
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Daniel J. Sanchez, Joseph T. Salerno, Matt McCaffrey.
Recording dates, summaries and topics for 4 of these 4 lectures come from the Mises Institute's page for Taxes Are What We Pay for an Impoverished Society, checked 2026-09-27.
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- Is Taxes Are What We Pay for an Impoverished Society free to listen to?
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- 4 recordings, 2 hours in total.
- Who lectures in Taxes Are What We Pay for an Impoverished Society?
- Daniel J. Sanchez, Joseph T. Salerno, and Matt McCaffrey.
- When was Taxes Are What We Pay for an Impoverished Society recorded?
- 2013, per the recording dates recovered for this series.
- Is there a transcript of Taxes Are What We Pay for an Impoverished Society?
- Yes. Every lecture in the series has one, 16,775 words in total, free to read on each lecture's page and searchable in the browser.
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