Timeless Truisms ....

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If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. -Ronald Reagan (1986)

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress....But then I repeat myself. -Mark Twain

I 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

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. -George Bernard Shaw

A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, a debt he proposes to pay off with your money. -G. Gordon Liddy

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. -James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)

Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries. -Douglas Casey

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. -Frederic Bastiat-- French Economist (1801-1850)

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. -Will Rogers (beloved humorist, writer, actor)

If you think health care is expensive now, Wait until you see what it costs when it's free! -P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian---Author

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. -P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian---Author

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. -Voltaire--French author and philosopher-- (1764)

No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while Congress is in session. -Mark Twain (1866)

Talk is cheap...except when Congress does it.
-Unknown

The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other. -Ronald Reagan

The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin. -Mark Twain

There is no distinctly Native American criminal class...save Congress. -Mark Twain

What this country needs are more unemployed politicians. -Edward Langley, Artist (1928 - 1995)

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery. -Winston Churchill

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
-Thomas Jefferson

There is only one way to kill capitalism, taxes, taxes, and more taxes!!!!! -Karl Marx

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery. -Calvin Coolidge

The power to tax is the power to destroy. -John Marshall--Supreme Court Chief Justice

I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other men's rights. -Abraham Lincoln