"The average taxpayer in Germany or Japan pays less for the defense of his country than the average taxpayer in America pays for the defense of Germany or Japan." -David Bergland lawyer, law professor, writer, lecturer, publisher, libertarian Source: Libertarianism In One Lesson, P. 41 (Sixth Edition 1993).
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"Taxes should be continued by annual or biennial reenactments, because a constant hold, by the nation, of the strings of the public purse is a salutary restraint from which an honest government ought not wish, nor a corrupt one to be permitted, to be free." -Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President
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"One of the most insidious consequences of the present burden of personal income tax is that it strips many middle-class families of financial reserves. [It] has made the individual vastly more dependent on the State." -W. H. Chamberlin (1897-1969) American historian, journalist, author
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