If you’d like to read a good short dose of freedom-loving libertarian commentary each day, you might enjoy David Boaz’s new compilation of more than 25 years of his columns. It’s called The Politics of Freedom: Taking On The Left, The Right, and Threats to Our Liberties.
In a column titled “At Least Eight Good Reasons to Pass a Tax Cut,” first published in 2001, Boaz offered a single paragraph to explain why lawmakers should set tax rates as low as they possibly can:
In a free country, money belongs to the people who earn it. The most fundamental reason to cut taxes is an understanding that wealth doesn’t just happen, it has to be produced. And those who produce it have a right to keep it. We may agree to give up a part of the wealth we create in order to pay for such public goods as national defense and a system of justice. But we don’t give the government an unlimited claim on our money to use as it sees fit.
