Taxation without representation is tyranny.”…Founding Father James Otis
“The collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to the public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny.”…President Calvin Coolidge
“I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents”… President James Madison
“There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.”…Economist Adam Smith
“Congress can raise taxes because it can persuade a sizable fraction of the populace that somebody else will pay.”…Economist Milton Friedman
“One thing is clear: The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly half of everything they earn to the government.”…Representative Ron Paul
We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.”…Winston S. Churchill
“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.”…Economist Frédéric Bastiat
“To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.”…President Thomas Jefferson
“The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.”… Economist John Maynard Keynes
“The power to tax is the power to destroy.”… SCOTUS Judge John Marshall
“If anyone will not work, neither shall he eat.” 2 Thessalonians 3:10
“The fundamental absurdity of a majority taxing itself in order to maintain a propaganda organization aimed at persuading the same majority to go further than it is yet willing should be obvious. The propriety of such agencies in a democracy spending public funds on publicity in favor of extending their activities must remain questionable.” …Economist Friedrich A. Hayek
“Taxes are too high everywhere in every nation. Tax laws are too complicated everywhere. Governments everywhere waste huge amounts of their citizen’s wealth on boondoggles and unethical activities.”…Economist Dan Bawly
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the people discover they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that democracy always collapses over a loose fiscal policy–to be followed by a dictatorship.”… Scottish Judge/Historian Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee
“No nation has ever taxed itself into prosperity.”…Pundit Rush Limbaugh
“You can’t tax business. Business doesn’t pay taxes. It collects taxes.”…President Ronald Reagan
“As we peer into society’s future, we — you and I, and our government — must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.”…President Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Excess taxes of socialism kills economic growth. Then, it stifles free speech. Then, it foments strife and division. Them, it uses whatever means necessary to justify the ends. Finally, it imposes tyrannical government”…Commentator John Hawkins
“A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.”…Author Isabel Paterson, God of the Machine.
“By today’s standards, King George III was a very mild tyrant indeed. He taxed his American colonists at a rate of only pennies per annum. His actual impact on their personal lives was trivial. He had arbitrary power over them in law and in principle but in fact, it was seldom exercised. If you compare his rule with that of today’s U.S. Government you have to wonder why we celebrate our independence”…Columnist Joseph Sobran
“The government you elect is the government you deserve.”… President Thomas Jefferson
“The taxpayer is the new permanent underclass.”…Radio host Andrew Wilkow
“Daylight Savings Time was created for the purpose of creating more taxable revenue on sales by the state governments by providing more daylight in the evening.”…Musician James Thomas Kesterson Jr
“When the total tax burden grows beyond a bearable size, the problem of devising taxes that will not discourage and disrupt production becomes insoluble.”… Author Henry Hazlitt
“There are approximately 80 anti-poverty programs in America. In his January 1964 State of the Union address, President Lyndon Johnson proclaimed, “This administration today, here and now, declares unconditional war on poverty in America.” In the 50 years since that time, U.S. taxpayers have spent over $22 trillion on anti-poverty programs. Adjusted for inflation, this spending (which does not include Social Security or Medicare) is three times the cost of all U.S. military wars since the American Revolution. Yet progress against poverty, as measured by the U.S. Census Bureau, has been minimal, and in terms of President Johnson’s main goal of reducing the “causes” rather than the mere “consequences” of poverty, the War on Poverty has failed completely.”…Heritage Foundation
“The socialist experiment “was found to breed much confusion and discontent and retard much employment that would have been to the benefit and comfort. For the young men, that were most able and fit for labor and service, did repine that they should spend their time and strength to work for other men’s wives and children without any recompense”…William Bradford Plymouth Colony Governor 1621
“Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.” …Economist Adam Smith
“[I] shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes. Indeed, upon second thought, I will not use it then, for it is unchristian, inelegant, and degrading–though to speak truly I do not see how house rent and taxes are going to be discussed worth a cent without it.” …Author Mark Twain
“Among the many other questions raised by the nebulous concept of “greed” is why it is a term applied almost exclusively to those who want to earn more money or to keep what they have already earned—never to those wanting to take other people’s money in taxes or to those wishing to live on the largesse dispensed from such taxation. No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.”…Economist Thomas Sowell
“It is easier to seize wealth than to produce it, and as long as the State makes the seizure of wealth a matter of legalized privilege, so long will the squabble for that privilege go on.”…Journalist Albert Jay Nock
“Using coercion to drive charity is like using kidnapping to create love.”…Philosopher Stefan Molyneux
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