Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by George Ford Smith
“[P]eople suffer taxation and other abuses as long as they don’t get out of hand. When they do, heads tend to roll. Over the ages, government leaders caught on and have developed more sophisticated means to steal our property. One way was withholding, a wartime emergency measure in WWII that haunts us to this day. The idea is if you’re never allowed to hold in your hands the money you’ve earned, you might not miss it. Among others, free-market champion Milton Friedman had a hand in designing federal withholding that took effect in June 1943. The other form of theft is more subtle: Corruption of the money we use.” (01/23/25)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/sound-money-requires-voluntary-governance