FMF NEWSLETTER 22 March 2018

Dear friend of the FMF

In this week’s feature article, economist Luke Muller explains why more taxes, in the form of increased VAT, fuel levies and the sugar tax, harm the poor and exacerbate inequality between the rich and the poor. Taxes such as these have a greater impact on the poor because they spend more of their income on things such as basic food and transport - the more taxes there are, and the more complex the tax regime, the greater the negative impact on the poor.

Taxing people into poverty – LUKE MULLER

Tax has been a part of human history for millennia. There are records of farmers in ancient Egypt giving up a portion of their crops and peasants having to provide some of their labour freely to the Pharaoh. During the following centuries, taxation became commonplace in global societies, yet over time rulers learnt that there were limits to people’s willingness to comply. The French revolution was fueled by a revolt against onerous taxes and the British tax policy towards colonies helped to initiate the American Revolution and the formation of the United States. In 1789, Benjamin Franklin wrote “in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”

Robert Vivian and Leon Louw – FAIS: the harbinger of things to come

Tuesday, 27 March 2018 EVENING EVENT – Leon Louw, Temba Nolutshungu and Eustace Davie – Tales from last century: How FMF opposed apartheid @17h45 @ FMF – RSVP http://www.freemarketfoundation.com/View-Event?i=175

Wednesday, 11 April 2018 MEDIA BRIEFING – Wandile Sihlobo – Land @11h00 @ FMF – more info to follow

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The land question & the perils of magical thinking
Have progressives won “the culture war?”
3 ways regulation makes health care expensive

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