In Defence of Ayn Rand #4: Rand, Anarchism, and Taxes
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Channel: Paul McKeever · 2017 · News & Politics
NOTE: This video was originally recorded on May 29, 2007, and was uploaded to youtube within a week thereafter. It appears that youtube lost or damaged the file in or about 2009. It is being reloaded so that installment #4 of Paul McKeever's "In Defence of Ayn Rand" series is not incomplete. In this episode, McKeever responds to youtuber XOmniverse - who, at least at the time, was influenced by Rand's works, but who was (unlike Miss Rand) an anarcho-capitalist. Topics covered include Ayn Rand's position on anarchism, and Paul McKeever's theory on the morality of using sales taxes to fund legitimate government functions (which was not a part of Ayn Rand's philosophy, Objectivism: Miss Rand left the financing of government to future philosophers of law).
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