“Balance of power” doesn’t mean the bureaucrats on either side of the aisle get to take turns using our tax dollars to enact their prescribed versions of “good policy.” It means a government that is fully accountable to the people therein – a novel idea, we know.
“I have never understood why it is ‘greed’ to want to keep the money you have earned, but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.”
– Thomas Sowell
In all fairness, taxation isn’t really theft. Ratlike though they are, it’s not like IRS agents are wriggling through the crevices in your house’s foundation each night so they can take your stuff when you aren’t looking. Taxation is actually extortion, because the IRS will send armed men to encage you for not forking over one-third of your income each year.
We have more respect for street criminals than we do the IRS. When you get right down to it, the junkie who points a sharpened length of rebar at people’s throats is practicing entrepreneurism. It’s a crude form of entrepreneurism, true, but at least they’re self-employed. Continue reading “Taxation is Theft: New Design + Henry Hazlitt Quotes”
