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More Walter Block: against taxation, minarchy, public schools, and slavery

Political, Economics ·Thursday April 14, 2011 @ 01:15 EDT (link)

Read a couple more Walter Block articles tonight (some written with other authors; see individual articles):

"Canadian Public Finance Texts Cannot Justify Government Taxation: A Critique of Auld & Miller; Musgrave & Bird; McCready; and Wolf" (title says it all)
"The Libertarian Minimal State? A critique of the views of Nozick, Levin and Rand" (sorry folks, there ain't no such thing as libertarian minarchism)
"Enterprising Education: Doing Away with the Public School System" (I read "Schoolhouse Socialism" earlier)
"A Libertarian Theory of Secession and Slavery": yes, you can morally stop slavery, but not go on a murder, rape, and destruction spree

All quite good and up to his usual standards. A little while ago I opened a raft of tabs from his publications page, and am slowly working my way through them, while reading a few full books, both paper and PDF, at the same time. Great writer, very clear, prone to making devastatingly incisive attacks on weak arguments.