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The Value-Added Tax: A New Tax System for the United States proposes elimination of the personal and corporate income tax system in the United States, and replacement of the current system with one based on the value-added tax (VAT). The book describes the inadequacies of the current US tax system; its incredible complexity; its undesirable economic incentives which discourage saving, investment, and economic growth; the high administrative cost; the instability in government revenues caused by a narrow, volatile tax base; the incentive for wasting productivity in tax avoidance; the problem it causes in international trade; the invasion of privacy; and the tyranny of the IRS. (16 November 1987, e-book edition 8 November 2000.)
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The Story of Civilization: A Child's Primer of Economics. A fable about the history of the world, from an economic perspective (29 May 2004, updated 2 August 2004.)
Growth-Based Economics Is the Ultimate Weapon of Mass Destruction. This note was published in 2010 in Miscellany53. It is still relevant today. Fracking has pushed Hubbert's Curve a little to the right, on the time axis. The evidence of biospheric destruction is now very evident and apparent (polar ice melt; increase in global temperature; death of coral reefs; rampant forest fires). Despite the biospheric destruction, global human population continues to increase by about one percent per year (80 million people per year). The human economic system has proved to be quite robust. As Joseph A. Tainter discusses in The Collapse of Complex Societies (Cambridge University Press, 1988), complex societies do not decline gracefully -- when they end their growth phase, they collapse catastrophically.
