Taxes
"It would be a hard government that should tax its people one-tenth part of their income."
- Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac
“Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.”
– Calvin Coolidge
Cass Sunstein Says, Without Taxes, No Liberty
"Without taxes there would be no liberty. Without taxes there would be no property. Without taxes, few of us would have any assets worth defending. [It is] a dim fiction that some people enjoy and exercise their rights without placing any burden whatsoever on the public fisc. … There is no liberty without dependency. That is why we should celebrate tax day …”
-- Cass R. Sunstein, “Why We Should Celebrate Paying Taxes,” The Chicago
Tribune, April 14, 1999
-- Cass R. Sunstein, “Why We Should Celebrate Paying Taxes,” The Chicago
Tribune, April 14, 1999
According to Harry Reid, Taxes are Voluntary!
"The power to tax is the power to destroy.... A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but an instrument of tyranny." - Calvin Coolidge, speech in Washington DC, June 30, 1924
An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation. - John Marshall, McCullough v. Maryland, 1819
