In honor of income confiscation month, here's a quote from a little-known dead white racist male named Thomas Jefferson:
"To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. ... A wise and frugal government...shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. ... Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare but only those specifically enumerated. ... Would it not be better to simplify the system of taxation rather than to spread it over such a variety of subjects and pass through so many new hands?"
A few others:
"Government does not tax to get the money it needs; government always finds a need for the money it gets." --Ronald Reagan
"Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer." --Ludwig von Mises
"We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle." --Winston Churchill
"The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation." --Lenin
"The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin." --Mark Twain
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