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Murray Rothbard argued in The Ethics of Liberty in 1982 that taxation is theft and that tax resistance is therefore legitimate: "Just as no one is morally required to answer a robber truthfully when he asks if there are any valuables in one's house, so no one can be morally required to answer truthfully similar questions asked by the state, e.g ...
Applying his retributive theory, Rothbard states that a thief "must pay double the extent of theft". Rothbard gives the example of a thief who stole $15,000 and says he would have to return the stolen money and provide the victim an additional $15,000, money to which the thief has forfeited his right.
Rothbard concluded that libertarianism had its roots in the political left, and therefore that libertarians of the Old Right would be better suited in alliance with the growing anti-authoritarianism of the New Left. As Rothbard put it in the opening editorial of the journal: "Our title, Left and Right, reflects our concerns in several ways. It ...
The Ethics of Liberty is a 1982 book by American philosopher and economist Murray N. Rothbard, [1] in which the author expounds a libertarian political position. [2] Rothbard's argument is based on a form of natural law ethics, [ 3 ] and makes a case for anarcho-capitalism .
Jason Oppenheim has accused Los Angeles landlords of illegal rent hikes amid the wildfires. California law prohibits rent increases of over 10% after an emergency is declared.
The Los Angeles wildfires have set off a stampede to find housing, leading some property owners and managers to raise rents higher than the 10% limit in emergencies.
California lawmakers on Monday gave final approval to a package of 10 bills meant to combat retail theft, an effort that divided Democrats as they confronted key issues in the upcoming November ...
Murray Rothbard, Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy (1995). The Rothbard-Rockwell Report (1990–1999) [ 2 ] Rockwell, Jr, Llewellyn H., editor, The Irrepressible Rothbard: The Rothbard-Rockwell Report, Essays of Murray N. Rothbard (2000)