The Constitution of Liberty
 

The Constitution of Liberty

by F. A. Hayek

"One of the great political works of our time, . . . the twentieth-century successor to John Stuart Mill's essay, 'On Liberty.'"—Henry Hazlitt, Newsweek

"A reflective, often biting, commentary on the nature of our society and its dominant thought by one who is passionately opposed to the coercion of human beings by the arbitrary will of others, who puts liberty above welfare and... (read more)

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This book is deep, very deep. Hayek is sometimes difficult to follow, and other times crystal clear. Yet this book contains one of the best arguments against progressive taxation I've ever read.

Chapter Twenty of the book is “Taxation and Redistribution,” wherein Hayek made a persuasive case against progressive taxation. Some of his more stinging criticisms follow:

"Redistribution by progressive taxation has come to be almost universally accepted as just. Yet it would be...

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