At bottom are only two pure forms of legislation - productive and redistributive.
Richard Allen EpsteinThe protection of private property does more than promote market efficiency; it enhances the level of human freedom in the most intimate and personal parts of our lives.
Richard Allen EpsteinThe pillars of classical liberalism call for flat taxes, with revenues put to limited uses; strong property rights; and free markets.
Richard Allen EpsteinSecuring, not prohibiting, the orderly transfer of wealth from A to B, based on wealth differentials, is the raison d'รชtre of the [New Deal programs]. The contrast between the modern progressive and classical liberal agendas could not be more explicit.
Richard Allen Epstein