[quote=@Vilageidiotx]

As for Adam Smith, his entire thesis is that punitive taxes are bad. He also argued for labor unions well before any started to form, that long term educational requirements wasted the labor of youth, and he had a tendency to snark about how stock holders complain about the price of labor but never say a word about their own income from the stock.
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Basically what Libertarians and what not forget.

An interesting aside is that even without government in the market we'd still need government in the market to dictate what a free market is. Ultimately, free market capitalism doesn't really exist since on many larger levels it requires input. Whether in the grandiose requests and actions of the federal level (issuance of patents, investigation of, action against, and defining of what is a market scam (insider trading), etc) to the local level (heil County Board).