Fredrich Hayek wrote The Road to Serfdom while Nazism, under Hitler’s global designs, ravaged his native Austria. “Our freedom of choice in a competitive society rests on the fact that, if one person refuses to satisfy our wishes, we can turn to another,” he noted in his classic work on the dangers of big government, be the regime democratic or otherwise, warning: “But if we face a monopolist we are at his absolute mercy. And an authority directing the whole economic system of the country would be the most powerful monopolist conceivable.” The industrialized free world is now poised to give away its citizens’ ability to turn to another country when one fails to satisfy their wishes in regard to taxation. The United States and other major nations are on the cusp of empowering a multi-national monopoly via a global minimum tax. It stands to reason that if “an authority …