Financing a Free State NOTE: The opinions and commentary
expressed in this essay are those of the author and are an
exercise of free speech. They do not necessarily represent the
views of Free State Project Inc., its Directors, its Officers,
or its Participants. Financing a Free State by John Martin Oct
2, 2003Once a free state is chosen, one of the first orders of
business will be to repeal all forms of excessive and abusive
taxes and revenues and replace them with fair and very limited
financial sources. Even in a free state, these changes may take
some time, but they will at least be workable. Of course the
reductions in funding must coincide with equal reductions in
spending and downsizing of the state and local governments.
Because all forms of taxation are forms of theft, libertarians
must be very careful to construct any financing proposals so
that they can never provide too much revenue or abuse any
people. Although no taxes are ideal, some are much more abusive
and prone to excesses than others. To m