“The 16th Amendment corroded the American concept of natural rights; ultimately reduced the American citizen to a status of subject, so much so that he is not aware of it; enhanced Executive power to the point of reducing Congress to innocuity; and enabled the central government to bribe the states, once independent units, into subservience. No kingship in the history of the world ever exercised more power than our Presidency, or had more of the people's wealth at its disposal.” PeopleWorldStatesGovernmentPoliticalPoliticsNaturalWealthRightsSubjectsCitizensConceptsIndependentCongressExecutivesAmendmentsUnitsPresidencyWorld HistoryReducingAmerican CitizensBribeNatural RightsExecutive PowerCentral GovernmentSubservienceKingship Book:Income Tax: Root of All Evil Source: Income Tax: Root of All Evil
“We have retained the forms and phrases of a republic, but in reality we are living under an oligarchy, not of courtesan, but of bureaucrats.” RealityFormPoliticalPoliticsPhrasesRepublicBureaucratsOligarchyCourtesans Book:Income Tax: Root of All Evil Source: Income Tax: Root of All Evil
“The early American knew that freedom was nothing more than the absence of external restraint on behavior; the government could not give you freedom, it could only take it away.” GivingGovernmentPoliticsLibertyBehaviorLibertarianAbsenceLibertarianismRestraint Author:Frank Chodorov
“[When people] say 'let's do something about it,' they mean 'let's get hold of the political machinery so that we can do something to somebody else.' And that somebody is invariably you.” PeopleMeanPoliticalPoliticsCan DoMachineryCan Do Something Book:Fugitive essays: selected writings of Frank Chodorov Source: Fugitive essays: selected writings of Frank Chodorov
“The only beneficiaries of income taxation are the politicians, for it not only gives them the means by which they can increase their emoluments, but it also enables them to improve their importance. The have-nots who support the politicians in the demand for income taxation do so only because they hate the haves; . . . the sum of all the arguments for income taxation comes to political ambition and the sin of covetousness.” GivingMeanPoliticalHatePoliticsSinSupportPoliticianDemandAmbitionArgumentImportanceIncreaseIncomeTaxationIncome TaxCovetousnessBeneficiariesPolitical Ambition Author:Frank Chodorov
