"Fascism, Nazism, Communism, and Socialism are only superficial variations of the same monstrous theme: Collectivism.” ―Ayn Rand

"Reminder: no law prevents socialists from pooling their money together to fund all their good ideas.” ―Sal the Agorist

"For all the programs that socialist/leftists want the government to pay for (really us), there should be “Federal Go Fund Me” plans instead. That way all those who want to fund their pet projects could do so, but leave the rest of us alone. Taxes (forced payments) should only be used for the absolute minimum required for the government to function.” ―Michael

“Congress can raise taxes because it can persuade a sizable fraction of the populace that somebody else will pay.” ―Milton Friedman

“One thing is clear: the Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly half of everything they earn to the government.” ―Ron Paul

“Inflation; That’s the price we pay for those government benefits everybody thought were free.” ―Ronald Reagan

“Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed, there are many rewards; if you disgrace yourself, you can always write a book.” ―Ronald Reagan

“Dear IRS, I am writing to you to cancel my subscription. Please remove my name from your mailing list.” ―Snoopy

“To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.” ―Thomas Jefferson

“Since this is an era when many people are concerned about ‘fairness’ and ‘social justice,’ what is your ‘fair share’ of what someone else has worked for?” ―Thomas Sowell

“Why do people think that if the government just had more money, all of our problems would be fixed?”

“There is nothing government can give you that hasn’t been taken from you in the first place.” ―Winston Churchill

“Free speech does not mean your opinions are immune to criticism - quite the opposite, in fact.”

“You cannot tax your way to prosperity any more than you can drink your way to sobriety.”

“The people who start the wars don’t fight them, the people who spend the taxes don’t pay them, and the people who forgive the criminals don’t live next to them. Of course we’re going to have too many wars, too much spending, and too much crime.” ―Naval Ravikant

“A person who wants everything you have, except your job and work ethic”

“If voting made any difference, they wouldn’t let us do it.”

“A democracy will always vote itself more benefits than it is prepared to produce.” ―Alexis de Tocqueville

“The Objectivist ethics holds that human good does not require human sacrifice.” ―Ayn Rand

“The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights, cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.” ―Ayn Rand

“Capitalism has been called a system of greed — yet it is the system that raised the standard of living of its poorest citizens to heights no collectivist system has ever begun to equal, and no tribal gang can conceive of.” ―Ayn Rand

“Capitalism gave mankind the longest period of peace in history - a period during which there were no wars involving the entire civilized world.” ―Ayn Rand

“America’s founding ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more — and nothing less. The rest — everything that America achieved, everything she became, everything “noble and just,” and heroic, and great, and unprecedented in human history — was the logical consequence of fidelity to that one principle.” ―Ayn Rand

“What you owe to yourself is to work for your living. What you owe to your neighbor is not to interfere with his work.” ―Ayn Rand

“The United States of America is the greatest, the noblest and, in its original founding principles, the only moral country in the history of the world.” ―Ayn Rand

“Man can survive in only one of two ways - by the independent work of his own mind or as a parasite fed by the minds of others.” ―Ayn Rand

“The income tax creates more criminals than any other single act of government.” ―Barry Goldwater

“You don’t solve the government’s financial problems by stealing from it’s citizens.” ―

Things Ben Franklin was able to privatize: • Libraries • Militias • Universities & Schools • Hospitals • Roads • Fire Departments

“Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” ―Benjamin Franklin

“You don’t pay taxes - they take taxes.” ―Chris Rock

“We are living in an era of “woke” capitalism in which companies pretend to care about social justice to sell products to people who pretend to hate capitalism.” ―Clay Routledge

“In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.” ―Confucius

“The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages.” ―David Ricardo

“The bigger the government the smaller the individual.” ―Dennis Prager

“If you don’t like capitalism, then by all means, leave it. Go grow your own food, purify your own water, build your own shelter, hunt your own meat. Some act as though capitalism is a prison. The beauty of capitalism is that it is made up of entirely voluntary associations.” ―Dylan Allman

“Those who proclaim themselves “socialists” are usually depressing, have no sense of humor & attended an expensive college. Fate loves irony.” ―Elon Musk

“Government is a monopoly that can’t go bankrupt. ” ―Elon Musk

“If socialists understood economics they wouldn’t be socialists.” ―Friedrich August von Hayek

“The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.” ―Gaius Cornelius Tacitus

“Political correctness is fascism pretending to be manners.” ―George Carlin

“Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.” ―George Orwell

"> “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. -A proclamation by the pigs who control the government in the novel Animal Farm” ―George Orwell

“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” ―George Orwell

“The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether to avoid them, by means which the law permists, cannot be doubted.” ―George Sutherland

“In my many years I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three is a Congress.” ―John Adams

“Any one may so arrange his affairs that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which will best pay the treasury; there is not even a patriotic duty to incease one’s taxes.” ―Judge Learned Hand

“Over and over again courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging one’s affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everyboody does so, rich or poor; and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands: taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions.” ―Judge Learned Hand

“All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out.” ―Ludwig von Mises

“Suppose you were a member of Congress. And suppose you were an idiot. But I repeat myself.” ―Mark Twain

“If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper you’re misinformed.” ―Mark Twain

“Taxation is theft, purely and simply even though it is theft on a grand and colossal scale which no acknowledged criminals could hope to match. It is a compulsory seizure of the property of the State’s inhabitants, or subjects.” ―Murray Rothbard

“We don’t offer or deny an intellectual job based upon physical attributes.” ―Michael Thomas

“We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes non-work.” ―Milton Friedman

“What causes poverty? Nothing. It’s the orignal state, the default and starting point. The real question is, what causes prosperity? Free exchange between individuals (capitalism).” ―Per Bylund

“There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.” ―Robert A. Heinlein

“I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.” ―Robert A. Heinlein

“Love your country, but never trust its government.” ―Robert A. Heinlein

“The most terrifying words In the English language are: “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”” ―Ronald Reagan

“Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.” ―Ronald Reagan

“The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program.” ―Ronald Reagan

“Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don’t need it and hell where they already have it.” ―Ronald Reagan

“The U.S. taxpayer: Someone who works for the federal government but doesn’t have to take the civil service examination.” ―Ronald Reagan

“It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.” ―Ronald Reagan

*“Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases:

“If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.” ―Ronald Reagan

“A tax loophole is something that benefits the other guy. If it benefits you, it is tax reform.” ―Russell Long

“In a Free Society, you are guaranteed the right to speak, but not the right to ‘Be Heard’.” ―Steve Simpson

“A free people claim their rights, as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.” ―Thomas Jefferson

“The very same people who say that government has no right to interfere with sexual activity between consenting adults, believe that the government has every right to interfere with economic activity between consenting adults.” ―Thomas Sowell

“Too many political 'solutions" are solutions to problems created by previous political “'solutions” and wilI be followed by new problems created by their current “solutions.”” ―Thomas Sowell

“Elections should be held on April 16th - the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders.” ―Thomas Sowell

“Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.” ―Thomas Sowell

“Envy was once considered to be one of the seven deadly sins before it became one of the most admired virtues under its new name social justice.” ―Thomas Sowell

“Hey US Government, can you fix the roads you taxed me to build, so won’t foul up my car you tax me annually to drive, that I payed for with the income you also tax, that I park at my home that’s highly taxed?” ―US citizen

“Prior to capitalism, the way people amassed great wealth was by looting, plundering and enslaving their fellow man. Capitalism made it possible to become wealthy by serving your fellow man.” ―Walter Williams

“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

“So we must beware of a tyranny of opinion which tries to make only one side of a question the one which may be heard. Everyone is in favour of it. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people’s idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone says anything back, that is an outrage.” ―Winston Churchill

“You don’t make the poor richer by making the rich poorer.” ―Winston Churchill

“Everyone is entitled to seek his own happiness in the way that seems to him best as long as it does not infringe the liberty of others in striving after a similar end for themselves.” ―Immanuel Kant

“There is nothing more permanent than a temporary government program.” ―Milton Friedman

“If pigs could vote, they’d always vote for the guy who brings them the food, even though he is the same guy who is going to slaughter and eat them later.”

“There is no such thing as “government funded”. It’s all taxpayer funded.”

“A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.”

“Every time we manage to establish one freedom, they take another one away. Maybe two… My position is not too far from that of Ayn Rand’s.” ―Robert A. Heinlein

Taxes

National Sales Tax / Consumption Tax

Outside of no-tax, the consumption tax is the fairest and simplest method of taxation. Federal, state, county, local sales tax at the retail level only. Everyone pays: rich, poor, criminals, kids, elderly, those with no “job” income (retired, wealthy), tourists etc.

No other taxes. No income tax, no tobacco tax, no gas tax, no luxury tax, etc. Period. (no tax preparation, no deductions, everyone pays.)

It would make everything more transparent, as well. On every receipt you would see the tax, and politicians would have a one number to debate/promote on their platform - no complicated, byzantine tax system.

PS. As a financial advisor, I would support adding a consumption tax to investments (but no tax in investment income - making 401ks, IRAs etc pointless), such as mutual funds. When you buy shares you would pay a sales tax. You get the idea.

The “left” should like this… what is the one thing the wealth do more of than the poorer people? Spend money.

What Is Money

Money is not a finite resource. Money supply is not like a pizza pie. Thinking money is finite (like a physical thing) and believing that one having more it means some else will have less, is the number-one misunderstanding that is the cause of most fallacies regarding “money”, “investing”, and economics".

This is why Churchill’s quote is to-the-point. One person having “more” money than you, has no affect you making more (or less). “Money” is more like intelligence (a non-physical resource), in that you have more/better intelligence doesn’t affect someone else.

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