05-15 Chronicle

13 April 2005
Federalist Patriot No. 05-15
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CONTENTS:

THE FOUNDATION

FOUNDERS ON TAXATION

INSIGHT ON TAXATION

UPRIGHT ON TAXATION

EDITORIAL EXEGESIS

DEZINFORMATSIA

THE DEMO-GOGUES

VILLAGE IDIOTS

SHORT CUTS

NIGHTLINES

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THE
FOUNDATION

"I cannot undertake to lay my finger
on that article of the Constitution which
granted a right to Congress of expending,
on objects of benevolence, the money
of their constituents...." --James
Madison

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FOUNDERS
ON TAXATION

"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?" --Thomas Jefferson
++ "The apportionment of taxes
on the various descriptions of property
is an act which seems to require the
most exact impartiality; yet there is,
perhaps, no legislative act in which
greater opportunity and temptation are
given to a predominant party to trample
on the rules of justice. Every shilling
which they overburden the inferior
number is a shilling saved to their own
pockets. ... A just security to property
is not afforded by that government,
under which unequal taxes oppress one
species of property and reward another
species. ... Government is instituted to
protect property of every sort; as well
that which lies in the various rights
of individuals, as that which the term
particularly expresses. This being the
end of government, that alone is a just
government which impartially secures to
every man whatever is his own." --James
Madison ++ "The moment the idea
is admitted into society that property
is not as sacred as the laws of God,
and that there is not a force of law and
public justice to protect it, anarchy
and tyranny commence. If 'Thou shalt
not covet' and 'Thou shalt not steal'
were not commandments of Heaven, they
must be made inviolable precepts in
every society before it can be civilized
or made free." --John Adams ++
"It is a signal advantage of taxes
on articles of consumption that they
contain in their own nature a security
against excess. ... If duties are too
high, they lessen the consumption; the
collection is eluded; and the product to
the treasury is not so great as when they
are confined within proper and moderate
bounds." --Alexander Hamilton ++
"When the people find they can vote
themselves money, that will herald
the end of the republic." --Benjamin
Franklin

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INSIGHT
ON TAXATION

"Government does not tax to get the
money it needs; government always finds
a need for the money it gets." --Ronald
Reagan ++ "In general, the
art of government consists in taking
as much money as possible from one
party of the citizens to give to
the other." --Voltaire ++
"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
++ "Collecting more taxes than
is absolutely necessary is legalized
robbery." --Calvin Coolidge ++
"The way to crush the bourgeoisie is
to grind them between the millstones
of taxation and inflation." --Vladimir
Lenin ++ "An unlimited power
to tax involves, necessarily, a power
to destroy; because there is a limit
beyond which no institution and no
property can bear taxation." --John
Marshall ++ "If, from the more
wretched parts of the old world, we
look at those which are in an advanced
stage of improvement, we still find the
greedy hand of government thrusting
itself into every corner and crevice
of industry, and grasping the spoil of
the multitude. Invention is continually
exercised, to furnish new pretenses
for revenues and taxation. It watches
prosperity as its prey and permits none
to escape without tribute." --Thomas
Paine ++ "That most delicious of
all privileges -- spending other people's
money." --John Randolph of Roanoke
++ "To tax the community for the
advantage of a class is not protection:
it is plunder." --Benjamin Disraeli
++ "Gold still represents
the ultimate form of payment in the
world." --Alan Greenspan ++
"A government which lays taxes on the
people not required by urgent public
necessity and sound public policy is not
a protector of liberty, but an instrument
of tyranny." --Calvin Coolidge ++
"Virtually everything is under
federal control nowadays except the
federal budget." --Herman E. Talmadge
++ "Before we give you billions
more, we want to know what you've done
with the trillion you've got." --Les
Aspin ++ "The current tax code
is a daily mugging." --Ronald Reagan
++ "The only difference between
a tax man and a taxidermist is that the
taxidermist leaves the skin." --Mark
Twain ++ "Income taxes have
made more liars out of the American
people than golf." --Will Rogers

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UPRIGHT
ON TAXATION

"Three groups spend other
people's money: children, thieves,
politicians. All three need
supervision." --Dick Armey ++
"As I watch government at all levels
daily eat away at our freedom, I keep
thinking how prosperity and government
largesse have combined to make most of
us fat and lazy and indifferent to,
or actually in favor of, the limits
being placed on that freedom." --Lyn
Nofziger ++ "Any politician who starts
shouting election-year demagoguery about
the rich and the poor should be asked,
'What about the other 90 percent of the
people?'" --Thomas Sowell ++
"The Declaration of Independence, the
words that launched our nation -- 1,300
words. The Bible, the word of God --
773,000 words. The Tax Code, the words
of politicians -- 7,000,000 words --
and growing!" --Steve Forbes ++
"The government taxes you when you bring
home a paycheck. It taxes you when you
make a phone call. It taxes you when
you turn on a light. It taxes you when
you sell a stock. It taxes you when
you fill your car with gas. It taxes
you when you ride a plane. It taxes you
when you get married. Then it taxes you
when you die. This is taxual insanity
and it must end." --J. C. Watts, Jr.
++ "Today the percentage of
taxpayers who rely on professional tax
preparers is at an all-time high. The 67
percent of tax filers who do not itemize
may think they avoid compliance costs,
which include nagging uncertainty about
whether one has properly complied with
a tax code about the meaning of which
experts differ. But everyone pays
the cost of the tax system's vast drag
on the economy." --George Will ++
"Give me a break -- They say taxes are
inevitable ... like death. At least
death doesn't come every year." --John
Stossel

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EDITORIAL
EXEGESIS

"There aren't many border-control
success stories these days, but Arizona's
Minuteman Project is quickly becoming
one. ... How ironic that the people who
President Bush derided as 'vigilantes'
are acting as much-needed extra eyes
and ears for law-enforcement officials.
The Minutemen have all but sealed the
U.S.-Mexico border in the 23-mile
stretch they patrol. Their success
suggests that, organized in larger scale
with a cooperative federal government,
groups like Project Minuteman could be
a substantial contribution to border
security. At the very least, the
Minutemen are bringing some much-needed
attention to the nation's woefully
porous borders. We hope President
Bush and others who prefer the status
quo are watching." --The Washington
Times

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