Tag: Deborah Boucoyannis

Taxing the rich leads to representative government. Happy 800th birthday, Magna Carta!

If King John and his successors hadn’t taxed the rich and powerful so heavily, argues Deborah Boucoyannis, we might not have representative government and strong courts today. She writes that once rights are codified, as they were in Magna Carta, a parliament — what we like to call “limited government”— produces more state revenue. Or to flip […]