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Old 06-12-2007
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Re: Fair Tax?

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Originally Posted by timj219 View Post
Stating a man's political preference and a listing of his published works is not the same as "serious scholarship" arguing for ending government. As for von mises, there is a differnce between free market economic theory and "end government". Rockwell writes for the worldnutdaily. Not a bastion of "serious scholarship".

Please don't supply any more links. The "arguments" which you have actually presented here (state violates "moral" law, taxation is "theft", "end government", "I do not want to be governed and I do not want any government services") are childish and without basis in reason.
Why are they with out basis? You have told me this again and again, but have not provided any reason for this.

I never said Mises was an ararchist. In fact, he was appaled by the anarchist tendencies of Rothbard, his number one student.

As for serious schorlarship, what would you like me to do. Pick out every article that has to do with privitizing something? I gave you the CVs of four people who are tenured professors at major four year schools. One is even an endowed chair. While there is much more written on why we need more government, this does not change the fact that there is serious schoralship written on anarchy.

By the way, what is your definition of "serious scholarship?"
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