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Daily Archive for May 13th, 2009

The Grabbing Hand

Posted in Government Gone Wild on May 13th, 2009

Now the city of Providence wants to tax college students simply for the sake of being there. You know, to make sure the students contribute to the shared prosperity of the city. I really hope it happens, I really do. This is what most of the students and faculty at higher education institutions advocate for […]

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An Innocent Question

Posted in Money, Taxation on May 13th, 2009

Why does the Federal Government (via the IRS) NOT accept its own currency as payment of taxes? I have my own ideas, which I’ll share later. But this seems strange particularly given the views of heterodox monetary economists that argue the only reason a particular thing is money or has value as money is because […]

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