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In the history of Christian ethics, discussion of the moral difference between just taxation and legalized robbery is at least as old as Augustine of Hippo, who famously posed the question, "Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms?" (1) In a previous article, I examined the thought of Thomas Aquinas on this question. Aquinas is an outstanding example of the tradition of ethical thought that I shall call normative natural law, and his answer to Augustine's question, as I have argued, is that taxation is just to the extent that it represents fair payment for services rendered, and that purely redistributive taxation constitutes legal plunder. (2) This concept of the distinction between just taxation and legal plunder is more carefully articulated and further refined by classical liberal social thinkers of the nineteenth century. Implications of this moral doctrine for determining the legitimate scope of government activity become explicit as liberal theorists bring the moral tradition of normative natural law to bear on social issues brought into sharper focus by the emerging modern science of economics. Eminent among these nineteenth-century liberals is the French economist, author, and statesman Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850).

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