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Redistribution of Wealth

LibertyPen event 1978

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"What difference does it make whether a man is despoiled of his fortune openly and by force, or secretly, by stealth — whether through a bandit on the road or through a prince who debases the currency by which all things are measured?"

— Mariana, Juan de event 1599

menu_book De Rege et Regis Institutione (On the King and the Royal Institution)

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"The prince is not the owner of the private property of his subjects. To impose new taxes or to increase old ones without the consent of the people is an act of tyranny, contrary to natural law and destructive of the commonwealth."

— Mariana, Juan de event 1599

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De Rege et Regis Institutione (On the King and the Royal Institution)

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Juan de Mariana's major work of political theory, published in 1599. Mariana argues that political power originates in the community and is held in...

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Laffer, Arthur

American economist, creator of the Laffer Curve, influential in supply-side economics and tax policy

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Mariana, Juan de

event 1536 - 1624

Jesuit historian and political theorist at Toledo, author of De Rege et Regis Institutione (1599). Mariana argued that political sovereignty derive...

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