Frank Chodorov Quotes About Taxes

• Income 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.

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  Frank Chodorov

  Government  

  Frank Chodorov (2007). “Income Tax: Root of All Evil”, p.119, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• We cannot restore traditional American freedom unless we limit the government's power to tax.

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  Frank Chodorov

  Government   Libertarian  

  Frank Chodorov (2007). “Income Tax: Root of All Evil”, p.10, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• There cannot be a good tax nor a just one; every tax rests its case on compulsion.

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  Frank Chodorov

  Liberty   Libertarian   Cases  

  Frank Chodorov (1947). “Taxation is Robbery ...”

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• We cannot restore traditional American freedom unless we limit the government's power to tax. No tinkering with this, that, or the other law will stop the trend toward socialism. We must repeal the Sixteenth Amendment.

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  Frank Chodorov

  Government   Law   Liberty  

  Frank Chodorov (2007). “Income Tax: Root of All Evil”, p.10, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The corruption of freedom is in proportion to the moral deterioration of the people. For a people who have lost their sense of self-respect have no need for freedom. And the income tax, by transferring the property of earners to the State, has disintegrated the moral fiber of Americans to such a degree that they do not even recognize the fact.

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  Frank Chodorov

  Frank Chodorov (2007). “Income Tax: Root of All Evil”, p.75, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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