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Slaying Leviathan: The Moral Case for Tax Reform |
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| An angry mob stormed down the dark streets of Boston toward the palatial home of Lieutenant Governor Thomas Hutchinson. Once there, they tore windows and doors from their frames and battered down walls. They got drunk in Hutchinson’s wine cellar, destroyed his library, and cut down the trees in his yard. When the break of dawn and the fear of capture forced them to disperse, they were trying to tear off the roof.
It was August 26, 1765. This mob violence was precipitated by the Stamp Act, through which the British Parliament had imposed internal taxes on the American colonies six months earlier. Protests over the Stamp Act marked a milestone in colonial resistance to British control and in American tax history. Far beyond concern over mere shillings, the colonists were morally opposed to what they viewed as an inappropriate exercise of British power and the threat to colonial freedom.
More than two hundred years later, the burden on American taxpayers is many times greater than that which ignited the American Revolution, and the moral concerns that this burden raises are greater as well. Leslie Carbone's book, Slaying Leviathan: The Moral Case for Tax Reform, explores the moral dimension of tax policy and calls for fundamental tax reform as a moral imperative. Arguing that so-called progressive taxation runs afoul of both natural order and constitutional justice, Ms. Carbone’s book explores how the modern U.S. tax code is rife with perverse incentives, overturns the natural rewards of virtue, and erodes moral freedom. Slaying Leviathan offers a new vision of tax policy rooted in natural justice.
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