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No one can read our Constitution without concluding that the people who wrote it wanted their government severely limited; the words "no" and "not" employed in restraint of government power occur 24 times in the first seven articles of the Constitution and 22 more times in the Bill of Rights.
– Edmund A. Opitz

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Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and no interference with their persons or property.
– Lysander Spooner

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There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.
– Robert Heinlein

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When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.
– Dresden James

I'd Keep 8% More!

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If politicians were serious about day care for children, instead of just sloganizing about it, nothing they could do would improve the quality of child care more than by lifting the heavy burden of taxation that forces so many families to have both parents working.
–  Thomas Sowell

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A government which robs Peter to pay Paul, can always count on the support of Paul.
– George Bernard Shaw

Larry the Cucumber Agrees

If a thief comes in the night and steals your property, you still have all the same rights to that property. You can chase the person down and take it back. You can call the police and send them after the thief. You can prosecute that person until the property is returned.

Not so with taxes. Even if taxes are taken without your consent, to be spent on things you don't want, there is nothing to stop the IRS from taking them. So in that way, taxation is worse than theft; because you have no recourse. Sure, every April you can file for a "Tax Return" (joy) but even if you receive money back, all that means is the government took more from you in the first place than the tax code allowed.  
No one likes the IRS, so why is it still here?

Poor Larry. Guess Santa doesn't get a cookie.

About This Site

This blog is here to treat on the negative ramifications, in principle and practice, of our government sticking its nose where it doesn't belong. And where doesn't it belong? Let's ask a founding father shall we?

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

– Thomas Jefferson (1781)

A wise and frugal government which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government. – Thomas Jefferson (1801)

These quotes sum up the main premise of this site. I feel what Jefferson felt; that the government has one job, and that is to protect people's life, liberty and property from outside harm. Any foray into other aspects of a person's life is absolutely not the government's business. And so we have our title: Separation of Self and State.

A worthy goal.

If only, if only.

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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
– Thomas Jefferson (1781)

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The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it.
– John Hay (1872)

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Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
– P.J. O'Rourke