Daylight Robbery: How Tax Shaped Our Past and Will Change Our Future

by Dominic Frisby

change it. Civilisations are shaped by the way they are taxed. A large part of a nation’s destiny – whether its people will be prosperous or poor, free or subordinated, happy or depressed – is determined by its system of tax. Tax is power.

Today taxes are taken without choice, often by stealth, at source and by force.