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2008 April 11
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"Unquestionably, there is progress.
The average American now pays out twice
as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages." |
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"I have sat on many a promotion panel where the first question of panel members was 'How many seizures have you made?' " |
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2008 April 10
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"Our tax system is based upon voluntary assessment and payment, not upon distraint." |
"Our tax system is based on individual self-assessment and voluntary compliance." |
"Once the law starts asking questions, there's no stopping them." |
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2008 April 09
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"If the major opportunities for future growth of government lie in the area of conventional taxation, are there any defenses available to the citizenry? ... Perhaps the most fruitful advice comes in two parts. The first piece of advice is to avoid war and the rumor of war: this is history's greatest boon to the tax man. ... The second piece of advice is to seek ways of inhibiting government's ability conveniently to increase its collections. Possibly the very increase in that ability that is in prospect can be turned to account by a constitutional provision which forbade the income tax, and perhaps even the storage of information regarding individual incomes by third parties, including government." |
"If no information or return is filed, [the] Internal Revenue Service cannot assess you." |
"[T]he key question is: can we define 'income' in a fair and reasonably straightforward manner? Unfortunately we have not yet succeeded in doing so." |
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2008 April 08
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"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." |
"Our federal tax system is, in short, utterly impossible,
utterly unjust and completely counterproductive,
[it] reeks with injustice and is fundamentally un-American...
it has earned a rebellion and it's time we rebelled." |
"To lay with one hand the power of the government on the property of the citizen, and with the other to bestow it upon favored individuals to aid private enterprises and build up private fortunes, is nonetheless a robbery because it is done under the forms of law and is called taxation. This is not legislation. It is a decree under legislative forms." |
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2008 April 07
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"No taxation without representation." |
"Democracy is a form of government that cannot long survive,
for as soon as the people learn that they have a voice
in the fiscal policies of the government, they will move to vote
for themselves all the money in the treasury, and bankrupt the nation." |
"Taxation with representation ain't so hot either." |
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