The Free Market Foundation’s Martin van Staden resembles a kindergarten crybaby in his unremitting flood of tears over expropriation without compensation (“We cannot depend on the constitution to protect our freedoms”, January 19). 

Instead, the foundation should be washing out its handkerchiefs against taxes, which expropriate, without compensation, our hard-earned wages, salaries, interest, profits, dividends, capital gains and consumption...

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