The Evil of Tariffs

*For instance, both limit freedom of choice as to the disposal of one's income. Both apply violence in order that someone else's "good" may be served. 17 Both the tariff and the progressive income tax are re sorts to the political means. Each is a plunderbund. The plunderbund is merely another term for communalization by force, or legal thievery. It is simply the political device by which citizens pool their votes to extort the fruits of the labor of others for the purpose of satisfying the desires of themselves, their group, their community, or their in dustry. Rent control, parity and support prices to farmers, "free" education, compulsory social "security," TVA, public housing, wages by fiat, socialized health insurance, subsidies of all sorts, are but a few in the growing list of plunderbunds - life by violence. Violence Has Many Names Communalization by violence comes presented to the world in many forms, bearing numerous labels: commu nism, nazism, fascism, etatism, state-interventionism, fa bianism, planned economy, welfare state, socialism, and new, fair, and other kinds of deals.