The institution of taxation rests foursquare on the axiom that somebody must rule somebody else.
Frank ChodorovThe pertinent question: if Americans did not want these wars should they have been compelled to fight them?
Frank ChodorovSince the State thrives on what it expropriates, the general decline in production that it induces by its avarice foretells its own doom. Its source of income dries up. Thus, in pulling Society down it pulls itself down. Its ultimate collapse is usually occasioned by a disastrous war, but preceding that event is a history of increasing and discouraging levies on the marketplace, causing a decline in the aspirations, hopes, and self-esteem of its victims.
Frank ChodorovJust what part does the State play in production to warrant its rake-off? The State does not give; it merely takes.
Frank ChodorovIncome and inheritance taxes imply the denial of private property, and in that are different in principle from all other taxes. The government says to the citizen: “Your earnings are not exclusively your own; we have a claim on them, and our claim precedes yours; we will allow you to keep some of it, because we recognize your need, not your right; but whatever we grant you for yourself is for us to decide.
Frank Chodorov