The power to destroy
Posted By Russ Emerson on March 23, 2010 at 11:18 am
I’ve often wondered, particularly since the Democrats in power in North Carolina killed off an entire sector of an industry by passing an incredibly short-sighted Amazon Tax, if there is any economic activity that can possibly go un-taxed? What is it about governments at all levels, from local to federal, that makes them feel compelled to tax every single aspect of our economic lives?
And more specifically, what gives the federal government the power to tax everything they see?
Well, I’m no legal scholar… but today David Kopel (an actual legal scholar!) discusses some of the very questions I’ve had on the taxation matter: Is the tax power infinite?
Good reading.
(Link via Instapundit)
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