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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 institute was founded in January 1977 in San Francisco, California; [1] named at the suggestion of cofounder Rothbard after Cato's Letters, a series of British essays penned in the early 18th century by John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon. [8] [9] In 1981, Murray Rothbard was removed from the Cato Institute by the board. [10]
Murray Rothbard, whose writings and personal influence helped create some strands of right-libertarianism, [69] wrote about the Old Right in the United States, a loose coalition of individuals formed in the 1930s to oppose the New Deal at home and military interventionism abroad, that they "did not describe or think of themselves as ...
"Retail theft is not only bad for business, it also undermines safety," Assemblymember Rick Chavez Zbur (D-Los Angeles), who leads a special committee created this year to address the issue, said ...
The chief deputy tax commissioner in the Barrow County Tax Commissioner's office was arrested Thursday on charges of stealing more than $25,000 from the office, according to the Barrow County ...
Books by Murray Rothbard (15 P) Pages in category "Murray Rothbard" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent ...