Will Wilkinson, the vice president for policy at the Niskanen Center, does not like the tax bill just passed by Congress. Writing in  The New York Times, he finds the legislation “notably generous to corporations, high earners, inheritors of large estates and the owners of private jets.” Wilkinson has discovered a surprising source for the legislation he dislikes so much. It is none other than the libertarian idea, promoted by Murray Rothbard and Ayn Rand, that taxation is theft. Under their theory of “absolute” property rights, taxation was “morally criminalized.”  Democratic majorities, in this view, cannot override property rights. Wilkinson rejects … Continue reading Will Wilkinson on the Tax Bill