Will Wilkinson has an article in The New Republic that’s ostensibly about what’s wrong with Ron Paul. But I don’t think that’s what it’s really about. Call me a Straussian if you must; what Will really wanted to write about, on my reading, is why taxation is not theft. He got such an article into [...]

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Will Wilkinson offers what Karl Smith calls “Liberaltarianism in one sentence.” It’s best to just maximize growth rates, pre-tax distribution be damned, and then fund wicked-good social insurance with huge revenues from an optimal tax scheme. Karl muses, “A core hope of my engagement with the blogosphere is to determine why there is so much [...]

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