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“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”

“We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.”

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Author:Milton Friedman

“Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.”

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Book:Free to Choose: A Personal Statement

Source: Free to Choose: A Personal Statement

“5: Social security will break small business, become a huge tax burden on our citizens, and bankrupt our country! 1944: The G.I. Bill will break small business, become a huge tax burden on our citizens, and bankrupt our country! 1965: Medicare will break small business, become a huge tax burden on our citizens, and bankrupt our country! 1994: Health care will break small business, become a huge tax burden on our citizens, and bankrupt our country!”

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Author:Joseph Conrad

“Armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few.”

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Book:James Madison's

Source: James Madison's

“The power to tax, once conceded, has no limits; it continues until it destroys.”

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Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“Let them march all they want, as long as they continue to pay their taxes.”

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Author:Alexander Haig

“I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.”

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Author:Berkeley Breathed

“Ask a fellow if he favors organized prayer in the public schools. If he says 'No' he's a liberal. If he says 'Yes' he's a conservative. If he says, 'Public schools? The Constitution grants the government no power to run any mandatory tax-funded youth propaganda camps,' you have your hands on the wily libertarian.”

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Author:Vin Suprynowicz

“We cannot restore traditional American freedom unless we limit the government's power to tax.”

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Book:Income Tax: Root of All Evil

Source: Income Tax: Root of All Evil

“There is no moral distinction between the act of a pickpocket and the progressive income tax.”

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Author:Leonard Read

“The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes until you are dependent and helpless.”

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Author:James Dale Davidson

“David and Charles Koch are pretty much as far right as you can get on the ideological spectrum without falling off. They are far right libertarians, very anti-government, very pro-business, very anti-tax, anti-regulatory, in favour of free markets ruling the day.”

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Author:Jane Mayer

“Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.”