“For Good and Evil”

 I would like to recommend a book that I found very interesting. The book is For Good and Evil: The Impact of Taxes on the Course of Civilization by Charles Adams.

Here are a couple of reviews that are on the book jacket:

“For Good and Evil is sad testimony to how the governments of the world cannot be made to understand that there is something between taking and being given. They cannot get wealth by just grabbing it. They cannot make wealth by just handing it out. Buy governments – as witnessed by their tax policies through history – will not learn this. Well, we must keep hammering away at their thick heads, and For Good and Evil is a 9-pound sledge.”
- P. J. O’Rourke

“I can honestly say that in the course of fifteen years of professional research and writing about taxation, I would place Charles W. Adams’ history at the absolute top of any reading list on the subject.”
- From the Foreword by Professor Alvin Rabushka, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

As the flyleaf says, “once you’ve read For Good and Evil, you’ll never feel the same about taxes.”

I own a quantity of these books. The cover price in 1993 was $29.95. I will send you a copy or copies of this book for $12.50 each (includes shipping). You can order this book by calling me at (707)-449-5979 or emailing me at johnroscoe1000@yahoo.com.