Taxation as Tyranny: Montesquieu’s Argument for a Frugal Republic
The modern state has an appetite. It consumes revenue the way a growing organism consumes nutrients, always requiring more to sustain its expanding functions. We accept this as normal, even inevitable. But Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu, writing in eighteenth-century France, saw something different when he looked at heavy taxation. He saw the slow […]
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