"Between 1790 and 1990 the United States passed through three distinct systems of government finance. In each system, one type of revenue was relatively more important than in the other periods." In the first decades of the American Republic under the Constitution, the state governments experimented with system of government finance that allowed them to spend big on infrastructure while levying essentially zero taxes. Sounds too good to be true? It was.

Lysander Spooner had strong beliefs about intellectual property-especially his-that I'm about to completely disrespect with an ultra-long tweet storm (strap in, this will take a while, and get interrupted) of the entirety of The Unconstitutionality of Slavery. The plan is to post in chapters as I get the opportunity, so I'm not just preparing the tweet storm all day long and then don't get to tweet it because I have to go home.