This article intends to assess the various characteristics of just taxation in its moral, lawful and rational sense. It aims to correlate these characteristics in the context of political aspects, such as fiscal resistance and fiscal competitiveness in unrestrained economies as well as...

Frédéric Bastiat, himself a renowned classical libertarian, once put the construct of the state in question by proclaiming the following: "The State! What is it? Where is it? What does it do? What ought it to do? (Bastiat, 1848)" Bastiat then already had an answer for his questions, namely...