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Quote from Frederic Bastiat,


"The war against illegal plunder has been fought since the beginning of the world. But how is... legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Then abolish this law without delay ... If such a law is not abolished immediately it will spread, multiply and develop into a system."


By:

Frederic Bastiat (more quotes by Frederic Bastiat or books by/about Frederic Bastiat)


(1801-1850) [Claude Frederic Bastiat] French economist, statesman, and author. He did most of his writing during the years just before -- and immediately following -- the French Revolution of February 1848

Source:

"The Law" by Frederic Bastiat (1848)
<a href=http://libertytree.ca/articles/TheLaw >http://libertytree.ca/articles/TheLaw </a>

Categories:

Economics, Fed, IRS, Money, Plunder, Taxation, War

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