Progressives and Conservatives Are Wrong About Taxing the Rich

About this episode

The episode discusses the misconceptions held by both progressives and conservatives regarding the taxation of the wealthy.

Both progressives and conservatives show a complete unwillingness or inability to distinguish between those who got rich by genuinely creating value by serving others and those who are getting rich by expropriating wealth through force. Read the article here: https://mises.org/mises-wire/progressives-and-conservatives-are-wrong-about-taxing-rich 2026 is the Year of Rothbard—Murray's 100th birthday—and we're celebrating by giving away free copies of Anatomy of the State through May 31. Grab yours today at https://mises.org/gabfreebook Be sure to follow the Guns and Butter podcast at https://Mises.org/GB

People in this episode

Host: Connor O'Keeffe

Topics covered

• taxation
• wealth distribution
• political ideology
• value creation
• economic commentary

Keywords

• taxing the rich
• progressives
• conservatives
• wealth expropriation
• value creation
• Murray Rothbard
• Anatomy of the State

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Mises, Guns and Butter, Mises.org

Books & works: Anatomy of the State

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