You could not possibly maintain the current level of government taxation without the taxes being hidden, and they are hidden in two very different ways. They are hidden through withholding, but they are also hidden by being imposed on business, supposedly on business, when really, of course, business can't pay taxes, only people can pay taxes.

How can thinking people believe that a government that cannot deliver the mail can deliver gas better than Exxon, Mobil, Texaco, Gulf, and the rest?

The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system.

People hired by government know who is their benefactor. People who lose their jobs or fail to get them because of the government program do not know that that is the source of their problem. The good effects are visible. The bad effects are invisible. The good effects generate votes. The bad effects generate discontent, which is as likely to be directed at private business as at the government.

Congress can raise taxes because it can persuade a sizable fraction of the populace that somebody else will pay

Economic freedom is ... an indispensable means toward the achievement of political freedom.

Higher taxes never reduce the deficit. Governments spend whatever they take in and then whatever they can get away with.