Tax Day Apr 15 2008 - Dr. Edward Hudgins - The Atlas Society

nonsense delusional nonsense

Lt. Jim Dangle

Sorry but it was hard to concentrate on what this guy was saying with all the fidgeting he was doing. Was he holding back a big pee? The whole thing was like forced exuberance. I think I'll play it again and listen without watching.

Holy Christ, that is pathetic -- Hudgins comes across like a slick hucksterish carnival sideshow barker. Except for the slick part. "Ingratitude" as one of the top problems with the tax system?? This guy just does not understand Objectivism at all. It's like Peter Keating rose from the pages of fiction and started advocating for Objectivism.

lol so spot on.

Right On!

Dr. Hudgins, great speech. :-)

All the same, I think it would behoove us Objectivists to remind our D.C. think-tank friends that "Fair Tax" is a contradiction in terms. The long-term solution for a moral society is the abolition of compulsory taxation *per se*. :-)

Apparently he thinks this is funny. :P

It's an annual tradition for Grover Norquist to gather together a bunch of utilitarian "Beltway Libertarian" Cato Institute-type economists on Tax Day so that they can argue for a flat tax to replace the graduated income tax. Ed Hudgins is the only person to discuss the ethical case against the graduated income tax. Last year, Norquist gave that same smirk when Hudgins was done (I saw it on C-SPAN).

I suspect that Norquist laughed (both this time and last year) because Dr. Hudgins is the odd man out among the utilitarian "Chicago school" economists.