The 16th Amendment corroded the American concept of natural rights; ultimately reduced the American citizen to a status of subject, so much so that he is not aware of it; enhanced Executive power to the point of reducing Congress to innocuity; and enabled the central government to bribe the states, once independent units, into subservience. No kingship in the history of the world ever exercised more power than our Presidency, or had more of the people's wealth at its disposal.
Frank ChodorovWe have but to remember man's natural tendency to satisfy his desires with the minimum of effort to realize how political power will be utilized.
Frank ChodorovPopular suffrage is in itself no guarantee of freedom. People can vote themselves into slavery.
Frank ChodorovWe cannot restore traditional American freedom unless we limit the government's power to tax.
Frank ChodorovThe only beneficiaries of income taxation are the politicians, for it not only gives them the means by which they can increase their emoluments, but it also enables them to improve their importance. The have-nots who support the politicians in the demand for income taxation do so only because they hate the haves; . . . the sum of all the arguments for income taxation comes to political ambition and the sin of covetousness.
Frank Chodorov