Murray Rothbard Quotes

Only the State legally obtains its revenue by coercion.

We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.

Many states rely on sales tax as their principle source of revenue and do not have a State income tax.

Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of society - people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily.

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

Taxes are the lifeblood of Government

… 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.

Provision of facilities to the masses is linked with the collection of taxes.

Anyone who wants to see a very free world does not want government. I also don't like being extorted or being aggressed against by others.

What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue.

Taxes are the sinews of the state.

The state has been living on a revenue which was being produced in the private sphere for private purposes and had to be deflected from these purposes by political force. The theory that construes taxes on the analogy of club dues or of the purchase of the services of, say, a doctor only proves how far removed this part of the social sciences is from scientific habits of mind.

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

Government is not capable of caring. Government gets things done through coercion. They fine, they penalize, they tax, they confiscate, they jail, they bully to get what they want.

Throughout history governments have been chronically short of revenue. The reason should be clear: unlike you and me, governments do not produce useful goods and services that they can sell on the market; governments, rather than producing and selling services, live parasitically off the market and off society.

The revenue of the state is the state.

I will never consent to make our penal code the basis of our Ways and Means …

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

Everybody should pay taxes.

Taxes are not trivial - they're a huge portion of this overall economy. And that's why I focused on them.

Crucially, African governments must ensure they prioritize the eradication of tax evasion and tax avoidance.

It is the ability of governments to acquire money without direct taxation that makes modern warfare possible, and a central bank has become the preferred method of accomplishing that.

I don't give my money to the government.

We have to have an adequate number of taxes and an adequate amount of taxes.