Used for questions about the effects of taxation on political economy and society
"An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy,” 17 U.S. 327 (1819).
Taxes are the mechanism of economic redistribution that allows stratified societies to exist. So long a people are gathered into groups that must coexist for their common good, there must exist some way to distribute wealth among that group's hierarchy. Taxes are as intrinsic to human society as creativity and conflict.
