Taxes

"The final and best means of strengthening demand among consumers and business is to reduce the burden on private income and the deterrents to private initiative which are imposed by our present tax system," 

- John F. Kennedy  / Dec. 14, 1962 

(At the time the adjusted US per capita tax rate was less than half of what it was in 2016.)

"To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."

- Thomas Jefferson

"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it."

- Frédéric Bastiat

“The federal income tax system is a disgrace to the human race.”

- Jimmy Carter