A Few Quotes From Some Informed People
- Albert Einstein - "The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."
- Will Rogers - "It is a good thing that we do not get as much government as we pay for."
- James Madison - "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..."
- Will Rogers - "Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even."
- Robert A. Heinlein - "There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him."
- John S. Coleman - "The point to remember is that what the government gives it must first take away."
- Dr. Laurence J. Peter - "America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation."
- Milton Friedman - "Congress can raise taxes because it can persuade a sizable fraction of the populace that somebody else will pay."
- Plato - "When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income."
- Benjamin Tucker - "To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury."
- Winston Churchill - "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."
- G. Gordon Liddy - "A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money."
- Dan Bennett - "There's nothing wrong with the younger generation that becoming taxpayers won't cure."
- Jean-Baptiste Colbert - "The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least amount of hissing."
- Benjamin Franklin - "It would be a hard government that should tax its people one-tenth part of their income."
- Mike Joyner - "Guaranteed funds from governments motivates the needy to remain needy. Non-guaranteed funds from benevolent and charitable individuals motivates self sufficiency."
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