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Tax
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Tax
competition between
countries is good. International tax
agreements that organise tax harmonisation are bad. Tax competition
compels
governments to
economic use of public resources. It stimulates efficient public
services, prevents wasteful public
spending and saves taxpayers money. Learn
the Logic and Benefits
of Tax competition in this 5 min Video
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Mitchell Ph.D. (CF&P)
The
Laffer Curve explained
In these short
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Mitchell
explains the relationship between
tax rates
and tax revenue, and the reasons
why marginal tax revenu
declines
when tax rates increase. Historical examples
proove the case for moderate tax rates.
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Basics
of Economics
in 28 mins
Nobel Prize
laureate Milton
Friedman
discusses Big Government, Minimum Wages, High
Taxes, Trade Unions, Public Squander,
Big Brother, Subsidies and other
means
of destroying our Economy.
Milton
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The Road to Serfdom
 This
masterpiece of Nobel
Prize laureate Friedrich
Hayek is an eye-opener, strongly advocating the free market
principles. In this all-time classic Hayek persuasively warns against
the authoritarian utopias of central planning and the welfare state.
Fascism, communism and socialism share these utopias. For the
implementation of their plans these authoritarian ideologies require
government power over the individual, inevitably leading to a
totalitarian state. Every step away from the free market toward
planning reduces people's freedom and is a step toward tyranny.
Planning also cannot assess consumer preferences with sufficient
accuracy to efficiently co-ordinate production. In a free market
"Price" is the all-inclusive source of information, guiding
entrepreneurs to produce whatever is wanted and directing workers
wherever they are most needed. Free markets also provide the
entrepreneurial climate for a thriving economy and for releasing the
creative energy of its citizens. Free individuals in their native
endeavour to develop their talents and their eternal pursuit of better
living conditions produce spontaneous progress.
All public interference in the economic process disturbs the market
equilibrium, distorts the optimal allocation of resources and
consequently reduces the level of wealth. Where planning replaces free
markets people do not only loose their freedom and individuality.
Resulting slow growth also increases welfare demands causing dependence
similar to slavery. In the end people's self-reliance and self-respect
is ruined, and citizens are degraded to a means to serve the ends of
the collective mass.
Free condensed
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Samenvatting
(NL)
Debat hier
(NL)
Méér
over Hayek hier (NL)
Résumé
FrancaisOverview
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paperback version
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Is
Belasting Diefstal of niet?
Een opmerkelijk debat ten
gronde
tussen
Prof.
L.Stevens en Toine Manders
Alleen
de Staat en
de Maffia gebruiken dwang en zelfs dreiging
met geweld om zich voor hun "diensten" te laten betalen.
De overheid
verdedigt haar dwang met het excuus
dat
burgers niet bereid zijn tot vrijwillige bijdrage voor de collectieve
voorzieningen: voor wegen, voor onderwijs en
politie...
Dat is een drogreden: de
private sector slaagt er immers wél in de financiering van
collectieve
voorzieningen rond te krijgen zónder dwang of geweld. Neem het
voorbeeld van shopping centra. Daar zijn alle
collectieve
voorzieningen privaat gerealiseerd
in vrijwillige samenwerking.Straten,
parkings en beveiliging zijn privaat gefinancierd zonder dwang noch
overheid. En hun voorzieningen zijn
zelfs veel
beter dan de publieke diensten van de stad: gratis
parking, keurige toiletten en airco in straten en pleintjes. Comfort in
plaats van
stadsstoepen met valkuilen, hondenpoep en parkeerboetes.
"Free
riders" (niet-kopers, wandelaars) vormen geen probleem. Op
dezelfde basis van
vrijwilligheid kunnen
privéverzekeringen
even goed de sociale
zekerheid organiseren
Dwang is alleen
nodig als men aan
klanten
ongewenste
diensten wil aansmeren of goederen wil verkopen tegen een veel te
hoge prijs.
Dwang is
dus (vrijwel altijd vermijdbare)
initiatie van geweld. Belastingen
staan daarom
op hetzelfde moreel niveau als
diefstal.
"Wie dwang
gebruikt is schuldig aan moedwillig geweld. Dwang is inhumaan."
Mahatma Gandhi
Free
Riding into Slavery (mp3)
The
Stateless Society (mp3)
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The
text most
governments introduced to their
Parliaments is NOT
the same as the final version of
the Treaty.Governments
sold a pig in a poke. Peter
Mach discovered a
seemingly
inconspicuous sentence in the middle of the final consolidated version
enabling the EU Council of Ministers to adopt directives
on minimum rates for taxes and excise duties upon a claim that
national rates distort
competition. The sentence gives a fatal blow to the sovereignty of
member states in the most crucial field of fiscal affairs. This was not
approved as
such by Parliament.
The fraud exposes what
this treaty really is about:
disabling Tax
Competition and transforming
the European continent in a
huge HIGH TAX CARTEL from which no escape is
possible. more....
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While
the rest of the world is booming, Europe lags behind. France, Germany
and Italy are stagnating, and so do Denmark, Sweden and Finland. All
gained less than 44% prosperity from 1984 to 2004. "Big government" is
the main cause of Europe's weak performance. The oversized Public
Sector lacks productivity and the growing bureaucracy is undoing the
productivity gains of the Private Sector, eradicating all of its
outstanding performance and productiveness.
The
Irish
economy grew 4 times faster, gaining 169%
wealth over the same 20 year period. In barely half a generation
Ireland metamorphosed into Europe's second wealthiest country while
generating jobs for all, and creating a sustainable base for its
generous welfare system. Europe
could improve its performance by copying the Irish success formulas:
scaling down public spending, downsizing bureaucracy, and shifting the
tax burden from income on consumption.
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Exorbitant
money-printing by both
the
FED (m3=14%!) and the
ECB (m3=12%!)
lead us from bubble to bubble. From the internet mania to the present
housing bubble and likely to a raw
materials mania soon. These
mania's are school models of
malinvestment. Peptalk and excessive
money-printing create
a false illusion of wealth, disturbing spending
decisions both of citizens and businesses. Heavily
underrated inflation and
complex financial constructions have cheated the investment
calculation as well as the
pricing of saving and credit risks.
It
all resulted in overconsumption people cannot afford and in
overindebtedness business and people can never pay back. Can
this debt crisis be confined
to a minicrash or is more financial turmoil coming? Are
the deeper causes of the crisis being
remedied ? Can Central Banks
find a way to deflate
the housing bubble or will they reflate
markets once
more and pave the
road for a raw materials bubble and run away inflation soon?
Has our monetary system without any gold backing reached the stage of
final collapse? Find
out
more here. Nederlandse
versie► Is de
kredietcrisis voorbij?
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