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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 parents of a 13-year-old girl who was run over by a suicidal driver in Malibu in 2010 are appealing to California Gov. Gavin Newsom to stop the felon from being released on parole.
The wildfires that swept through the Los Angeles area last week have consumed more than 40,000 acres, wiping out entire neighborhoods and destroying more than 12,300 structures. Several fires ...
"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 ...
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 ...
The district attorneys have long blamed what they see as a rise in retail theft and drug crimes on Proposition 47, a 2014 voter-approved measure that made some lower-level crimes misdemeanors and ...