This book is also recommended reading for people interested in Islam and its effect on Arabs, namely that of freedom.

So give it a try.

I've been recommending this book for years. I keep several extras on my shelf to give away.

And, by the way...I'm a professional author, and I'm 'frugal'.

Enough said.

What a great book. The history of freedom around the world explained simply. The book explains why freedom works. This book is very entertaining.

If you agree with the views in the book, give it away to your elected officals. It is obvious they don't know or agree with it.

You can let them know about the book. Whether they agree with it is up to them.

THIS BOOK MORE THAN ANY OTHER BOOK I'VE READ ABOUT LIBERTY GIVES A CLEAR DEFINITION TO WHAT LIBERTY ACCUALLY MEANS. USING EASY TO UNDERSTAND EXAMPLES THE AUTHOR (F.A. HARPER) SHOWS THE THREATS TO LIBERTY,BOTH ECONOMIC AND PERSONAL, AND OFFERS SOLUTIONS TO REVERSING THE TRENDS. THIS BOOK WAS PUBLISHED IN 1949 AND ALTHOUGH THE AUTHOR NEVER MENTIONS FDR OR THE NEW DEAL, THIS READER DEFINITELY GOT THE IMPRESSION THAT THIS WAS A LIBERTARIAN RESPONSE TO THE SOCIALISM AND COLLECTIVISM THAT WAS PREVALENT AT THE TIME OF PUBLICATION. AFTER READING IT I WAS ASTONISHED TO LEARN THAT THE AUTHOR DR. FLOYD A.HARPER WASNT WIDELY KNOWN IN THE LIBERTARIAN WORLD. O WELL I HOPE HE CATCHES ON.

Taxation and Confiscation is yet another great Freeman Classic for your political economy bookshelf. It features a selection of essays by various luminaries addressing various facets of economic issues surrounding taxation, government fiscal policy, deficit spending and the regulatory state. Among the distinguished contributors are: economist Hanns F. Sennholz; historian Clarence Carson; political writer and theologian Gary North. Carson offers a witty tract on how the "power to tax is the power to destroy." North tackles the issue of school vouchers. Robert Higgs and John Hood offer two insightful essays that elaborate why the culmination of public sector growth (federal, state and local) has long outstripped real economic growth and is putting a burdensome strain on the nation's economic health. Eric Brodin tackles the myth of the Swedish Welfare State and the "third way between capitalism and socialism" myth. Other essays deal with issues such as confiscatory taxation caused by 'double taxation', tax equity, the middle-class tax-squeeze and how various public policies have stifled capital formation. It is a must for the free-market apologist. Though, if you don't already own any books from the Foundation from Economic Education than I recommend you at least get the book 'Cliches of Politics' first.

This pamphlet is now dated (written 1993) and many of its predictions of monetary gloom and doom have simply not materialized. I believe that much of what Sennholz and others are saying do have some validity. However, in order to gain credibility and to persuade the average citizen, people like Sennholz are going to have to stop wrapping it in this Black Helicopter, End-of-World rhetoric