October 11, 2009
Britain's Central Planning Death Panels
October 11, 2009
Free Market M.D.
October 11, 2009
Economies of Scale in Compliance
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Balan's Challenge
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The Pleasure of Telling Others What to Do
October 10, 2009
Gonick the Great - and How He Could Have Been Greater
October 9, 2009
More Scott Sumner
October 9, 2009
Not From The Onion
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Thoughts on a Second Stimulus
Bryan describes Block's definition as "inept, misleading and even insulting." But Block has carefully defined economic freedom as the degree to which a worker owns the product of his/her labor.
Under this definition, Block seems to be correct in stating that an income tax reduces economic freedom by reducing the extent to which a worker owns the product of his/her labor.
It would appear that Bryan is criticizing Block, but Bryan has not made it clear if he is criticizing Block's definition per se, or - on the other hand - the application of the definition to an income tax. Nor has he clarified why he is either finding the definition or its application to be flawed.
So I'd like to see clarification of both these issues.
Read the piece, Les. Block is describing Paul Craig Robert's definition as "inept, misleading, and even insulting."