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“Whenever you try to do good with someone else's money, you are committed to using force. How can you do good with somebody else's money, unless you first take it away from them? The only way you can take it away from them is the threat of force: you have a policeman, tax collector, who comes and takes it from them.”

Way Trying Firsts Force Taxes Threat Committed Policemen Collectors

Author:Milton Friedman

“The more you earn, the less you keep, And now I lay me down to sleep. I pray the Lord my soul to take, If the tax-collector hasn't got it before I wake.”

Ifs Soul Sleep Lord Praying Taxes Lays My Soul I Pray Collectors Tax Day Abracadabra

Book:The primrose path

Source: The primrose path

“Proscription, martial law, the billeting of the rude troops, the tax collector, the unjust judge, anything at all, is sweeter than responsibility.”

Law Responsibility Judging Taxes Troops Rude Unjust Collectors Martial Law

Book:The company she keeps

Source: The company she keeps

“The Tax Collector's letters are invariably mimeographed, and all they say is that you still haven't paid him.”

Stills Havens Taxes Letters Paid Collectors

Author:William Saroyan

“Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss.”

Source: Time Enough for Love

“Have you thought about His (God) handling of the gospel? God needs to get a message out to the human race, without which they will perish...foreve r. What's the plan? First, He starts with the most unlikely group ever: a couple of prostitutes, a few fishermen with no better than a second-grade education, a tax collector. Then, he passes the ball to us. Unbelievable.”

Needs Firsts Humans Race Plans Groups Couple Taxes Messages Balls Human Race Grades Unbelievable Unlikely Collectors Fisherman

Author:John Eldredge

“Those who make their living by collecting taxes cause the people to starve; when the people starve, the tax collectors, having no one to tax, starve also”

People Causes Taxes Collecting Collectors

Book:Tao teh king

Source: Tao teh king

“God can use anything, and anyone - even a king or a president, even a tax collector or a businessman, a priest or a prostitute, a Republican or a Democrat.”

Use President Kings Republican Taxes Democrat Priests Businessman Collectors

Author:Shane Claiborne

“Mao lived very much like the rank and file of the Red Army. After ten years of leadership of the Reds, after hundreds of confiscations of property of landlords, officials and tax collectors, he owned only his blankets, and a few personal belongings, including two cotton uniforms. Although he is a Red Army commander as well as chairman, he wore on his coat collar only two Red bars that are the insignia of the ordinary Red soldier.”

Years Wells Two Ten Taxes Ordinary Red Army Property Including Soldier Bars Officials Belonging Uniforms Coats Files Commanders Blanket Chairman Collectors Cotton Collars Mao Landlord Red Army

Author:Edgar Snow

“I decided that if nobody else was going to do anything to rectify this colossal inequity in taxation, I'd have to do it myself. So I instituted a suit against the city of Baltimore demanding that the city assessor be specifically ordered to assess the Church for its vast property holdings in the city, and that the city tax collector then be instructed to collect the taxes once the assessment has been made.”

Ifs Has Beens Made Church Cities Taxes Decided Property Suits Taxation Collectors Assessment Baltimore Colossal Rectify

Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair

“Now this is a way to approach our healthcare problems: increase the number of tax collectors and decrease the number of doctors - brilliant!”

Way Problem Numbers Taxes Approach Doctors Increase Brilliant Healthcare Collectors Decrease

Author:Charles Krauthammer