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We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. --Winston Churchill.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich. --Abraham Lincoln.
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. --George Bernard Shaw.
A socialist is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which he proposes to pay off with your money. --Gordon Liddy.
A socialist is someone who believes that businesses create oppression and governments create prosperity. --author unknown.
Foreign aid transfers funds from the poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries. --Douglas Casey.
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. --P.J. O'Rourke.
Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavours to live at the expense of everybody else. --Frederic Bastiat.
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. --Ronald Reagan.
If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free.
--P.J. O'Rourke.
(In Australia we do have 'free' health care, and it costs a bomb! And you still have to buy health insurance if you want actual cover).
The art of government is taking as much money as possible from one group of people to give to another. --Voltaire.
The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin. --Mark Twain.
Taking money from a person without their permission is called "theft", and doing so under threat is called "extortion". However, the government uses one word for both: "taxation". --Mark Dixon.
Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which best pays the treasury. There is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes. Over and over again the Courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible.
--Judge Learned Hand
(who however had not had to reckon with the Australian Government which legislates the opposite, see the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 (as amended again & again ..., in particular the so-called "anti-avoidance provisions")
It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder. --Frederic Bastiat.
No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session. --Mark Twain.
If you vote for someone that will make decisions for your life you are a fool;
If you vote for someone that will make decisions for my life you are a fiend. -- Mark Dixon.
This page last updated by
Mark Dixon,
13/04/07