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Politics

Hey Romney: If Corporations Are People, the War on Drugs Is a War on People, Too

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 8.16.2011 12:35 PM

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Econlog's David Henderson follows up on Romney's accurate observation that corporations, like soylent green, are made of people: 

Romney's passion and clarity on this are admirable. And until now, I've found little to admire in Romney. Now, the next step for him—which a patient in a wheel chair tried to help him see but he couldn't see—is to see that just as taxes on corporations are taxes on people, the war on drugs is not really a war on drugs: it's a war on people.

Bonus: As one of Henderson commenters notes, Milton Friedman said it better: 

(At 3:09, Friedman says of the fiction that the corporation pays half of the Social Security tax, "that's nonsense, that's bookkeeping, that's not economics." Despite the fact that I should should have known better, I genuinely thought Friedman was going to say "bullshit" instead of "bookkeeping." He'd be right either way, I suppose.)

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Katherine Mangu-Ward is editor in chief of Reason.

PoliticsNanny StateWar on DrugsEconomicsPolicyCorporationsTaxesCampaigns/ElectionsDrugs
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