For Good and Evil: the Impact of Taxes on the Course of Civilization - Charles Adams

Publication Year: 1992

Language: English

r Good and Evil: the Impact of Taxes on the Course of Civilization - Charles Adams

Publication Year: 1992

Language: English



This study of the history of taxation had heads turning across the nation, with excited reviews appearing in dozens of national newspapers and magazines in addition to local papers in almost every state. Adams makes a convincing case for taxes being the cause of many of the landmark events in civilization's history. Starting in ancient Egypt, Adams surveys how governments established and collected their taxes, and how these procedures led to the fall of Rome, the rise of Islam and the Arabs' successful conquests, the signing of the Magna Carta, the American Revolution and Civil War, and many other momentous events. Adams also offers suggestions for governments wishing to avoid the fate of previous nations destroyed by ignorant tax policies, something every American will no doubt read with much interest.

The author
Known as "the tax writer," Charles Adams entered the field of international taxation after ten years in private legal practice and became a certified specialist in taxation law. His writings have been published in magazines, newspapers, and periodicals with lead stories featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal. Mr. Adams is also an adjunct scholar at both the Ludwig von Mises Institute at Auburn University and the Cato Institute and a visiting lecturer on U.S. tax history at the National Archives, George Mason University, University of Rochester, University of Toronto, and New York University.