For any ranked society, whether a chiefdom or a state, one thus has to ask, why do the commoners tolerate the transfer of the fruits of their hard labor to kleptocrats? This question raised by politic...
Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling.
He said that there was death and taxes, and taxes was worse, because at least death didn’t happen to you every year.
He's spending a year dead for tax reasons.
Is this Paradise?''I can guarantee you that it isn't,' Jubal assured him. 'My taxes are due this week.
Mr. Edwards admired the well-built, pleasant house and heartily enjoyed the good dinner. But he said he was going on West with the train when it pulled out. Pa could not persuade him to stay longer.I'...
Sometimes I think death is even more inevitable than taxes, his grandmother replies bleakly. Humans don’t live in a vacuum; we’re part of a larger pattern of life.
The army was kept in as good state of fitness as the funds would allow.
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.
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness... but only when you pay your taxes? That means your freedom is rented, leased, & not unalienable.
Let's tell the truth. Mr. Reagan will raise taxes, and so will I. He won't tell you. I just did.
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.
This is the history of governments, - one man does something which is to bind another. A man who cannot be acquainted with me, taxes me; looking from afar at me, ordains that a part of my labour shall...
[Justice George Sutherland said, in the majority opinion for the Carter Coal case] 'One who does a thing in order to avoid a monetary penalty does not agree; he yields to compulsion precisely the same...
If you have a really good ideas, one thing you dont need is a fucking gun. An iPad is a kind of a cool thing. They don't need to threaten you with fines to get you to buy one do they? The moment the g...
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.
No nation has ever taxed itself into prosperity.
Altogether, humankind had spread over less than one-eighth of the galaxy. Expansion was somewhat self-limiting. The U.S. had not been able to hold a colony at two hundred light-years distance. At fift...
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
I hate paying taxes. But I love the civilization they give me
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