"Heaven help us if government ever gets into the business of protecting us from ourselves."
When you unmask it, ... you see that taxation is highwaymanry [highway robbery] made respectable by custom, thievery made moral by law; there isn't a decent thing to be said for it, as to origin, principle or its effects on the social order. Man's adjustment to this iniquity has permitted its force to gain momentum like an unopposed crime wave, and the resulting social devastation is what the socialists have long predicted and prayed for ...
In principle this income tax, as the founders of the Constitution realized, is more vicious than any other, for it is a direct attack on the sanctity of private property. ... If you follow through on the principle involved, you come to the conclusion that the individual's right to property is a temporary and revocable stewardship. The Jeffersonian ideal of inalienable rights is liquidated, and substituted for it is the Marxist concept of state supremacy.
"It is not possible to reform the Internal Revenue Service without abolishing the income tax, any more than it would be possible to reform Slavery. To keep the Income Tax system in place while attempting to reform it by controlling its inforcement agency, the IRS, and simplifying the tax code, would be like trying to reform slavery without abolition by controlling the working conditions and hours of work of the slaves in the system. Chairman Bill Archer is correct, 'we must pull the Income Tax out by its roots so that it will never grow again.'"
"It is not sufficient to defend democracy and the rule of law through words alone. It must be by deeds as well."
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