“Remember that all tax revenue is the result of holding a gun to somebody's head. Not paying taxes is against the law. If you don't pay your taxes, you'll be fined. If you don't pay the fine, you'll be jailed. If you try to escape from jail, you'll be shot. ... Therefore, every time the government spends money on anything, you have to ask yourself, 'Would I kill my kindly, gray-haired mother for this?'” IfsTryingGovernmentRememberLawMotherAsksResultsPayFineTaxesGunShotsJailGrayRevenuePaying Taxes Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“Jail is just another micro-society. It just happens that here, the problems are far more out in the open, we don't live with the facades of lies that democracy or capitalism creates for us.” ProblemRealityHappensLyingPoliticsCommunityMoneyClassDemocracyPolicyWallTaxesCapitalismTradePropertyHuman RightsIdeologyJailFree SpeechConsumerismFacadePartisanship Author:Cecily McMillan
“The U.S. tax code was written by A students. Every April 15 we have to pay somebody who got an A in accounting to keep ourselves from being sent to jail.” PayWrittenStudentsTaxesCodeJailAprilAccounting Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“Every nation-state tends towards the imperial - that is the point. Through banks, armies, secret police, propaganda, courts and jails, treaties, taxes, laws and orders, myths of civil obedience, assumptions of civic virtue at the top.” StatesLawOrderNationsSecretVirtueTaxesArmyPoliceCourtMythObediencePropagandaAssumptionJailTreatiesCivicsLaw And OrderSecret PoliceCivic Virtue Book:The Nightmare of God: The Book of Revelation Source: The Nightmare of God: The Book of Revelation
“I am not brave enough to not pay my income tax and risk going to jail. But I can say rather freely what I want to say with my art.” WantArtI CanEnoughPayRiskTaxesBraveIncomeJailIncome TaxKent Author:Corita Kent
“We have to convince people that they have the power to elect people. The people they are electing are the ones making the decisions about how our tax dollars are going to be spent. Is it going to be for more jails, or for more schools? For more house services? It's very important that people understand that, do their research and find out who to vote for.” PeopleImportantSchoolHouseDecisionTaxesResearchVoteDollarsConvinceJailTax Dollars Author:Dolores Huerta
“Every nation-state tends towards the imperial - that is the point. Through banks, armies, secret police, propaganda, courts and jails, treaties, taxes, laws and orders, myths of civil obedience, assumptions of civic virtue at the top. Still it should be said of the political left, we expect something better. And correctly. We put more trust in those who show a measure of compassion, who denounce the hideous social arrangements that make war inevitable and human desire omnipresent; which fosters corporate selfishness, panders to appetites and disorder, waste the earth.” ShouldHumansSaidStillsWarStatesShowsEarthLawPoliticalDesireOrderLeftNationsSocialSecretCompassionVirtueTaxesWasteArmyPoliceCourtMythInevitableSelfishnessObedienceCorporatePropagandaAssumptionJailDisorderAppetiteArrangementsSomething BetterTreatiesCivicsHideousLaw And OrderSecret PoliceCivic Virtue Author:Daniel Berrigan