The True Nature of Taxation - Rod Rojas - Mises Daily

The True Nature of Taxation - Rod Rojas - Mises Daily

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To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. . .I place economy among the first and most important of republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared.
– President Thomas Jefferson

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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. 
– C. S. Lewis

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[On ancient Athens]: In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all – security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again. 
– Edward Gibbon

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The power to tax is the power to destroy.
– John Marshall

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Liberty is not a means to a political end. It is itself the highest political end.
– Lord Acton