Posted on 04/14/2009 8:21:45 AM PDT by usflagwaver
As April 15th approaches, it is always a worthy enterprise to reflect on one of the major motivations of the American Patriots that caused them to break away from England. Of course, I am referring to “Taxation Without Representation.” Today, we know from the Tea Parties multiplying around the Country that Gerald Berzan is quite to say right that “Taxation with representation ain't so hot either.” Perhaps that is why Douglas Adams declared that he was “spending a year dead for tax reasons.”
In that lively spirit, I give you my Top 10 Anti-Taxation Quotes with my annotations:
No. 10.
“In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.” Benjamin Franklin. It is hard to start anywhere else. The little known full quote is “Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes." The Founders, who framed a Constitution to protect us from government, did not dare consider an income tax. Franklin obviously did not trust future politicians.
No. 9.
“I am in favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.” Milton Friedman. The 1st of two Friedman quotes in this countdown brings up the question: Why the Republican Party is (or should be) so anti-tax? Franklin obviously warned us. Friedman accepted his warning and knew that unless we fought them at every turn, taxes would be more than inevitable.
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Del Beccaro’s No.1 Anti-Tax Quote!
“Indeed, in a free government almost all other rights would become worthless if the government possessed power over the private fortune of every citizen” John Marshall, Founder & seminal US Supreme Court Chief Justice. Without question this is the fine point of the matter. The income tax – instituted by Democrat Woodrow Wilson – is an involuntary tax that requires citizens to disgorge their hard earned property. Since, as Will Durant said, “communism begins where private property ends,” Marshall is right to point that there are precious few rights remaining if government can take away your private property. We must come to understand that lower taxes literally are the equivalent to greater freedom. We can begin to restore our freedom by scrapping the involuntary income tax in favor of a voluntary sales tax.
I couldn’t agree more!
“Maybe we ought to see that every person who gets a tax return receives a copy of the Communist Manifesto with it so he can see what's happening to him.”
T. Coleman Andrews, Commissioner of IRS, May 25, 1956 in U.S. News & World Report.
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