On 1/10/10 08:46 , Kevin Cunningham wrote:


So if freedom isn't free, why aren't you
willing to pay for it?


Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its
best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an
intolerable one.
--Thomas Paine


That government is best which governs least.
--Thomas Paine


To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty
their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than
not. Every time you cut programs, you take away a person who has a
vested interest in high taxes and you put him on the tax rolls and
make him a taxpayer. A farmer on subsidies is part welfare bum,
whereas a free-market farmer is a small businessman with a gun.
--Grover Norquist


I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any
excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.
--Milton Friedman


I am opposed to any individual taxes until we eliminate all of
the unconstitutional agencies, and I suspect we wouldn't need a tax
after that.
--Michael Badnarik


It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and
he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of taking
from his people without return or accounting, was reckoned, and felt
himself to be, a criminal, guilty of the highest crime of disloyalty.
--John Buchanan Robinson


Rulers do not reduce taxes to be kind. Expediency and greed
create high taxation, and normally it takes an impending catastrophe
to bring it down.
--Charles Adams


The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what
otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means
which the law permits, cannot be doubted.
--George Sutherland


The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't
get worse every time Congress meets.
--Will Rogers


Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays
out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
--H. L. Mencken


We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes
nonwork.
--Milton Friedman


We're going to look awfully stupid if we give income tax relief
to people who do not pay income taxes.
--Joe Scarborough


What I want to do is create more taxpayers, not more taxes.
--Geoff Davis


What the Democrats don't seem to understand is that higher taxes
mean fewer American jobs and less American production.
--Lynn Westmoreland


You don't pay taxes - they take taxes.
--Chris Rock


You know, the Democrats want to balance the budget by raising
spending and raising taxes. The Soviet Union had a balanced budget.
--Tom DeLay