“The best taxes are such as are levied upon consumptions, especially those of luxury; because such taxes are least felt by the people. They seem, in some measure, voluntary; since a man may choose how far he will use the commodity: They naturally produce sobriety and frugality, if judiciously imposed: And being confounded with the natural price of the commodity, they are scarcely perceived by the consumers. Their only disadvantage is that they are expensive in the levying.” PeopleIfsMenMayUseSeemsFeltNaturalProduceTaxesLuxuryConsumersExpensiveConsumptionCommodityDisadvantagesSobrietyFrugality Book:The philosophical works of David Hume Source: The philosophical works of David Hume
“Which countries contain the most peaceful, the most moral, and the happiest people? Those people are found in the countries where the law least interferes with private affairs; where the government is least felt; where the individual has the greatest scope, and free opinion the greatest influence; where the administrative powers are fewest and simplest; where taxes are lightest and most nearly equal” PeopleCountryGovernmentLawFoundIndividualFeltMoralOpinionInfluenceTaxesEqualAffairPeacefulInterfereSimplestScopeAdministrativeFree Opinion Book:The Law Source: The Law
“How would you like your child in kindergarten through 12th grade attending classes with kids who can't read, write, speak or understand English -- or American education values? Furthermore, how would you feel if those students felt zero investment in education, in English and the American way? How would you like your child's education dumbed down to that of a classroom from the Third World? Guess what? Today, if you're a parent of a child in thousands of classrooms across America, that's what's happening to your children with your tax dollars.” IfsWorldWayFeelsWritingChildrenKidsTodayAmericaValuesSpeakFeltParentClassStudentsLike YouTaxesHappeningsThirdsOur ChildrenDollarsInvestmentYour ChildrenGradesZeroClassroomThird WorldAttendingKindergartenAmerican EducationTax DollarsInvestment In Education Author:Frosty Wooldridge
“I organized tax resistance in 1965, with a friend. I kept at it for about ten years. I don't see it as a principle, it's a tactic. And I felt I had exhausted its potential as a tactic right about then, so I stopped.” YearsFeltPrinciplesTenTaxesResistanceOrganizedExhaustedTactics Author:Noam Chomsky
“It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of taking from his people without return or accounting, was reckoned, and felt himself to be, a criminal, guilty of the highest crime of disloyalty.” PeopleFeltCrimeReturnKingsTaxesHighestArmyCriminalsGuiltyRoyalAccountingProprietyPrerogativeDisloyalty Author:John Buchanan Robinson