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Endowment Taxation?

Endowment Taxation?
Mises Wire James Fogal
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This paper by UCLA's Kirk Stark ("Enslaving the Beachcomber: Some Thoughts on the Liberty Ojbections to Endowment Taxation") seems like a good critique of an idea I'd never heard of, which would tax people based not on their income only but on their "earnings capacity."
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