Libertarian theorists Robert Nozick and Murray Rothbard, standing virtually alone in academia, argued that coercive taxation is immoral, but did their objections overcome the public-goods argument? Economist James Rolph Edwards and philosopher Edward Feser square off in this follow-up to Fesers article in the fall 2000 issue of The Independent Review.
James Rolph Edwards is an associate professor of economics at Montana State University - Northern in Havre, Montana.