What would a libertarian tax look like? Whenever we critique the current tax regime from a Christian libertarian perspective, the question that inevitably follows is what a better system would actually look like. If we take seriously the biblical commands…
The Problem With: Business Taxes The political debate over business taxes is built entirely on a theatrical illusion. Politicians across the spectrum treat “the corporation” as an independent entity with deep pockets that can either be squeezed to fund state…
The Problem With: Sales Taxes You walk into a local store, pick up a tool for your workshop, clothes for your children, or ingredients for dinner, and bring them to the register. You hand over money earned through your hard…
The Problem With: Property Taxes Do you actually own your home? Even after you spend thirty years paying off your mortgage and hold the deed in your hands, stop paying your annual property taxes, and a county sheriff will eventually…
The Problem With: Inheritance (Death) Taxes Few policies reveal the predatory nature of the modern state quite like the inheritance tax. Most taxes penalize you while you are actively earning, buying, or selling. The death tax is uniquely invasive: it…
The Problem With: Capital Gains Taxes Most people view the capital gains tax as an abstract policy debate that only affects Wall Street traders and private equity magnates. In popular discourse, it is framed simply as a tax on wealthy…
The Problem With: Income Taxes Every year, millions of Americans spend billions of collective hours and tens of billions of dollars just trying to comply with federal tax laws. Most people view this as a necessary, if frustrating, civic duty.…
