Perhaps the only commendable thing newly installed Economic Dictator (and Barton Fink look-alike) Tim Geithner has done in a public career otherwise devoted to serving the Power Elite was to “cheat” on his taxes. Given that taxation is theft, “cheating” the taxman is bit like refusing to disclose every hidden pocket of household wealth to an armed robber. Unless they’re sick unto death with some form of collectivist psychosis, Americans submit to taxation for the same reason they would pay off any other irresistibly powerful extortionist. At some point in any conversation about taxes someone, acting with smugly misplaced confidence … Continue reading Kleptocrats of the World Unite