Source: Students For Liberty
by Sebastian Ariel Citrea
“With this provocative subtitle, Stephen Holmes and Cass Sunstein begin the debate around a revealing and novel essay in many aspects: ‘The Cost of Rights.’ The authors focus on how our individual liberties depend on state bureaucracy and the money collected by public officials, explaining the relationship between rights and budgetary costs, and seek to establish points of conversation on how to understand the collective organization of a political community. It is a direct critique of libertarian ideas (in the opening pages, they mention thinkers like Robert Nozick, Charles Murray, and David Boaz). Does our freedom depend on taxes, and ultimately on the State? What does it mean that rights have a cost? What are the implications for our cherished individual rights?” (10/01/24)
https://studentsforliberty.org/blog/why-liberty-depends-on-taxes/