The libertarian insists that whether or not such practices are supported by the majority of the population… War is Mass Murder, Conscription is Slavery, and Taxation is Robbery —Murray Rothbard
Tag: Government
There are, to be sure, free spirits in the world, but their freedom, in the last analysis, is not much greater than that of a canary in a cage. They may leap from perch to perch; they may bathe and guzzle at their will; they may flap their wings and sing. But they are still in the cage… Democracy provides swarms of such men. —H.L. Mencken
How does something immoral, when done privately, become moral when it is done collectively? Furthermore, does legality establish morality? Slavery was legal; apartheid is legal; Stalinist, Nazi, and Maoist purges were legal. Clearly, the fact of legality does not justify these crimes. Legality, alone, cannot be the talisman of moral people. —Walter Williams
You are being lied to by the government. Thanks to declassified documents you can confirm for yourself how much the government lies—from the Tuskegee Airmen Experiment to MKULTRA, to what’s being pushed on TV today. —The Pholosopher
If we care about our remaining liberties we must at some point draw a line in the sand and let politicians and bureaucrats know we will not tolerate further encroachment on our liberty. —Walter Williams
All attempts to coerce the living will of human beings into the service of something they do not want must fail. —Ludwig von Mises
I think that as you get older you just trust the government less at running anything. —Vince Vaughn
Government has a habit of blaming the private sector for its own failings while taking credit for advances we in fact owe to the private sector. —Tom Woods
The whole idea, the whole premise of taxation needs to be examined, it’s based on theft. —Glenn Jacobs, Knox County Mayor
You can’t tax your way to a balanced budget without tanking the job creation that actually generates tax receipts. —Matt Kibbe