On the Morality of Black Market Activities

10/23/2006 Mises Wire Stefan Karlsson

Today on LRC, I explain why high taxes makes black market nannies and other black market activities necessary and why the assertion of a statist Christian leader in Sweden that black market activities constitute theft is absurd.

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