This Day In History: Frank Chodorov, a libertarian thinker, was born on this day in 1887. He wrote a book that became an American classic, _Income Tax: The Root of All Evil_.
He also wrote: "Freedom is essentially a condition of inequality, not equality. It recognizes as a fact of nature the structural differences inherent in man – in temperament, character, and capacity – and it respects those differences. We are not alike and no law can make us so."
Mises.org writes: "Frank Chodorov was an extraordinary thinker and writer, and hugely influential in the 1950s. He wrote what became an American classic arguing that the income tax, more than any other legislative change in American history, made it possible to violate individual rights, one of the founding principles.
He argues that income taxes are different from other forms because they deny the right of private property and presume government control over all things."
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