Tax rates measure the nation’s most important and costly entitlement program; how much of a person’s income politicians are entitled to take.
– James Bovard, Lost Rights, 1994
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No legislative act… contrary to the constitution can be valid.
– Alexander Hamilton, Federalist Papers, 1788
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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others.
– Thomas Jefferson, 1784
05/20/2012
It would probably be true, to say that the illusion that by means of progressive taxation the burden can be shifted substantially onto the shoulders of the wealthy has been the chief reason why taxation has increased as fast as it has done and that, under the influence of this illusion, the masses have come to accept a much heavier load than they would have done otherwise.
- Friedrich A. Hayek
05/19/2012
The apportionment of taxes on the various descriptions of property, is an act which seems to require the most exact impartiality; yet, there is perhaps no legislative act in which greater opportunity and temptation are given to a predominant party, to trample on the rules of justice.
- James Madison, The Federalist No. 10
05/18/2012
The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
- Booker T. Washington
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It is one thing to show a man that he is an error, and another to put him in possession of truth.
– John Locke, 1690
