April quotes

[kandrathe]

Oh, Tris! You knew this would get a rise out of me! Here are some other thoughts;

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. -- Frederic Bastiat

The difference between death and taxes is death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets. -- Will Rogers

Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss. -- Robert A. Heinlein

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 Churchill

The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin. -- Mark Twain

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.... -- James Madison

America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation. -- Dr. Laurence J. Peter

Congress can raise taxes because it can persuade a sizable fraction of the populace that somebody else will pay. -- Milton Friedman

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income. -- Plato, The Republic

To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury. -- Benjamin Tucker in Instead of a Book

It would be a hard government that should tax its people one-tenth part of their income. -- Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac, 1758

Politicians never accuse you of 'greed' for wanting other people's money --- only for wanting to keep your own money. -- Joseph Sobran, (1946- ) American writer and editor.

People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government. -- Cal Thomas