William Greider Quotes

Government can wreck a business by confiscating its money by taxation.

The government forces you to give your money to things you don't believe in, to have your money go to projects that might be inherently immoral.

Taxation is, in fact, the most difficult function of government and that against which their citizens are most apt to be refractory.

By adopting programs to distribute substantial amounts of income, a nation guarantees that its government will become more powerful and invasive in other ways.

Taxes are the source of life for the bureaucracy, the army and the court, in short, for the whole apparatus of the executive power. Strong government and heavy taxes are identical.

There is nothing government can give you that it hasn't taken from you in the first place.

For government to give, it must first take away.

Unlike every other person and institution in society, government obtains its revenue from coercion, from taxation.

Another way of verbally masking elite preemption of other people's decisions is to use the word 'ask'-as in 'We are just asking everyone to pay their fair share.' But of course governments do not ask, they: tell. The Internal Revenue Service does not 'ask' for contributions. It takes.

Liberals love to say things like, "We're just asking everyone to pay their fair share." But government is not about asking. It is about telling. The difference is fundamental. It is the difference between making love and being raped, between working for a living and being a slave. The Internal Revenue service is not asking anybody to do anything. It confiscates your assets and puts you behind bars if you don't pay.

I've always considered the government taking one out of every two dollars I earn absolute tyranny.

Remember that government doesn't earn one single dollar it spends. In order for you to get money from the government, that money must first be taken from somebody else.

It is self-evident that no number of men, by conspiring, and calling themselves a government, can acquire any rights whatever over other men, or other men's property, which they had not before, as individuals.

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

Men at a distance, who have admired our systems of government unfounded in nature, are apt to accuse the rulers, and say that taxes have been assessed too high and collected too rigidly.

No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government.

I believe with my sage and epigrammatic friend P. J. O'Rourke that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take it all away.

The art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.

Why, sir, there is every probability that you will soon be able to tax it.

… every man who puts money into the hands of a "government" (so called), puts into its hands a sword which will be used against himself, to extort more money from him, and also to keep him in subjection to its arbitrary will.

How can one govern without taxes, without strength, without authority?

Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country

What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It’s not good at much else.

Liberal Democrats are inexorably opposed to tax cuts, because tax cuts give people more power, and take away from the role of government.

The power of taxing people and their property is essential to the very existence of government.