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An add on to my video from yesterday

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This post is connected to my video http://www.livevideo.com/video/0965CC0D5B7A41D1A1F95FC8380E0EF3/you-have-been-warned-.aspx

When I meet a government which says to me, "Your money or your life," why should I be in haste to give it my money? - H.D. Thoreau

I ... place economy among the first and most important of republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers to be feared... And 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. - Thomas Jefferson, from a letter to Governor Plumer, July 21, 1816.

Blessed are the young, for they will inherit the national debt. - President Herbert Hoover

To steal from one person is theft. To steal from many is taxation. - Daiell's Law (a take-off on Felson's Law)

The federal income tax system is a disgrace to the human race. - Jimmy Carter, 38th President of the United States

The current tax code is a daily mugging. - Ronald Reagan, 39th President of the United States - Labor Day address, Independence MO, 2 Sep 85

Read my lips. No new taxes. - President George Bush, 40th President of the United States

I have no intention of raising taxes. - President Bill Clinton, 41st President of the United States

Congress tried to soak the rich, but drenched the middle class instead. - Sen. Connie Mack, R-Fla., during debate on H.R. 2264, the 1993 budget reconciliation bill

The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing. - Jean B. Colbert

The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government. - Barry M. Goldwater

I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law. - David Dinkins, Mayor of New York City

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall. - Denis Healey

Don't steal. The government hates competition. - Bumper Sticker

Loophole: To liberals, any provision of the tax code that fails to claim money earned, inherited, saved, or otherwise pocketed by known taxpayers. - The Conservative's Dictionary

Taxation is theft; Conscription is slavery; War is murder. - Unknown

The power to tax involves the power to destroy. - Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall, 1819.

If Patrick Henry thought that taxation without representation was bad, he should see it with representation. - The Farmer's Almanac

Have you ever wondered if taxation without representation was cheaper? - Unknown

Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation. - Fletcher Knebel, 6/21/99

It's income tax time again, Americans: time to gather up those receipts, get out those tax forms, sharpen up that pencil, and stab yourself in the aorta. - Dave Barry

In 1950, American families sent 1 of 50 of their hard earned dollars to Washington: Today it is 1 in 4. - Rep. John Ensign D-NEV, C-SPAN I, 4 April 1995, 11:03 AM EST

Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed. - Robert Heinlein

Serfs in the Middle Ages had to give up 20% of their income yearly and that made them virtual slaves. Today the average American pays 47%. What does that make Americans? - Kenneth Prazak, Secretary of the Libertarian Party of Illinois (Apr 14, 2000)

This huge inventory of taxes has reduced once-proud Americans to the status of chattel slaves. - Paul Roberts in his Feb. 7, 1996 column

According to House of Representatives testimony government at all levels, including regulation, costs Americans 53% of their income. - C-SPAN, 4 April 1995

American workers spend more of their day working to pay taxes than they do to feed, clothe, and house their families. - The Tax Foundation 9/6/99

Taxpayers spend 4.3 billion hours in a year of income tax compliance. That is the equivalent of a work force of over 2,083,000 people, more than work in the auto industry, the computer manufacturing industry, the airline manufacturing industry, and the steel industry combined - Cost of Complying with Federal Income Tax, The Tax Foundation

The best thing we can do for family values is to repeal the income tax. Then families will have the resources they need to implement their own values -- and not those of the politicians. With the income tax gone, families will no longer be forced to have two breadwinners by necessity. Children will be raised better, family values will predominate, and crime will diminish. If your local school indoctrinates your child with values that are alien to you, you'll have the money to buy a private education. - Harry Browne, Libertarian Party

The reason there is a breakdown in family values is that there is no parent at home. The reason there is no parent at home is that one parent works to support the family and the other to support the government. - Representative from Family Research Council, CNN & COMPANY

Bush wants to grant a tax cut of $1.3 trillion over 10 years -- which, as he noted, would amount to 5% of the $25 trillion the federal government expects to collect in revenue over the next decade. Gore, by contrast, wants to dole out a tax cut of $500 billion. That amounts to 2% of the federal government's revenue over 10 years. And there you have it -- their so-called difference. Gore wants to make sure the government gets 98% of its expected revenue; Bush wants the government to pocket 95% of its expected revenue. That isn't a debate; that's a profound agreement, with some quibbling over a few minor details. - Libertarian Party Press Release, October 4, 2000

It's absurd. Mr. Bush believes that paying a third of your income to the Feds is enough. He is following the Republican mantra, smaller government, fewer taxes for everybody, because you should keep more of your own money. That's who the Republicans are. Now you may disagree with that philosophy, and I'll respect your belief, but don't sit there trying to tell me there's some secret pact to make the rich richer. The truth is the wealthy will still pay the overwhelming portion of federal income taxes.
Now some people don't like the rich and want to punish them, some people want to buy votes from the poor and working class, and some people are simply not so smart, but the relentless propaganda continues, "A tax cut for the rich," just like "Every vote must count," just like, "It's only about sex." Enough already! Political disagreement is good. Hysterical propaganda is bad. - Talking Points: Bush Wins Florida, Again!, Bill O'Reilly, Monday, April 09, 2001

If Congress were to pass a flat tax, you'd simply pay a fixed percentage of your income, and you wouldn't fill out any complicated forms, and there would be no loopholes for politically connected groups, and normal people would actually understand the tax laws, and giant talking broccoli stalks would come around and mow your lawn for free, because Congress is NOT going to pass a flat tax, you pathetic fool. - Dave Barry

There is an ancient belief that the gods love the obscure and hate the obvious. Without benefit of divinity, modern men of similar persuasion draft provisions of the Internal Revenue Code. Section 341 is their triumph. - Martin D. Ginsburg

The Tax Code is a monstrosity and there's only one thing to do with it. Scrap it, kill it, drive a stake through its heart, bury it and hope it never rises again to terrorize the American people. - Steve Forbes

All the big corporations depreciate their possessions, and you can, too, provided that you use them for business purposes. For example, if you subscribe to the Wall Street Journal, a business-related newspaper, you can deduct the cost of your house, because in the words of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger in a landmark 1979 tax decision: 'Where else are you going to read the paper? Outside? What if it rains?' - Dave Barry "Sweating Out Taxes"

It's a game. We [tax lawyers] teach the rich how to play it so they can stay rich--and the IRS keeps changing the rules so we can keep getting rich teaching them. - John Grisham

Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes. - Dave Barry "Sweating Out Taxes"

The nation ought to have a tax system which looks like someone designed it on purpose. - William E. Simon

For every $50 you earn, you get $10 and they get $40. - Jay Leno explaining Form 1040

The IRS has 480 different tax forms, plus 280 more to explain how to fill out the first 480. The original Tax Code had 11,400 words; today it has 7 million. - Rep. Sam Johnson, R-Texas

Your profits are going to be cut down to a reasonably low level by taxation. Your income will be subject to higher taxes. Indeed in these days, when every available dollar should go to the war effort, I do not think that any American citizen should have a net income in excess of $25,000 per year after payment of taxes. - President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Radio Broadcast, April 28, 1942 (Referring to Seven-Point Program)

Shouldn’t someone tag Mr. Kennedy’s bold new imaginative program with its proper age? Under the tousled boyish haircut is still old Karl Marx—first launched a century ago. There is nothing new in the idea of a government being Big Brother. - Ronald Reagan, In a 1960 letter to Richard M Nixon, which was disclosed in final weeks of 1984 presidential campaign, NY Times 27 Oct 84

I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going. - George Bernard Shaw

The taxing power of the Federal Government, my dear; the taxing power is sufficient for everything you want and need. - Supreme Court Justice Harlan F. Stone to Frances Perkins (1934) on how the new "Social Security" program was constitutional, offering his opinion that the federal government’s recently bestowed power to tax income gives them a carte blanche to begin any sort of government program they wish.

I believe that the 16th amendment has created a system that is economically destructive, impossibly complex, overly intrusive, unprincipled, dishonest, unfair, and inefficient - Rep. Sam Johnson R-Texas on April 10, 1997

All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It's only a question of degree. - Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank

Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his. - Ronald Reagan, 40th US President - campaign remark recalled when Reagan participated in dedication of Carter Presidential Center in Atlanta, ib 2 Oct 86

The income tax has destroyed the concept of financial privacy. It has demolished the idea that a man's home is his castle. It has provided unlimited funding for politicians to wreck lives and property. It has forced one-earner families to become two-earner households -- leading to decreased parental supervision of children; loss of family values; and increased crime, promiscuity and drug use. So long as the government has the power to invade our lives, rummage through our records, and take what it wants from our income, we will have only as much freedom and take-home pay as the politicians condescend to let us have. - Harry Browne, Libertarian Party

Why does a slight tax increase cost you $200 and a substantial tax cut saves you 30 cents? - Peg Bracken

Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It's not fair that some men should be happier than others. - Oscar Wilde

The trouble with an income-tax reduction is that it will stimulate business just enough to put everybody in a higher tax bracket. - Harold Coffin

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Posted Apr 22, 08 by LipstickTomboy
Thanks, I will post more as I find them.

Posted Apr 18, 08 by haddikazook (

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Great quotes!