emazur
04-14-2010, 05:41 PM
http://www.firstbastion.com/incometaxrootofevil.html
"Once socialism gets hold of a country, there seems to be nothing that will pry it loose except a complete collapse of the political setup, either as the result of a disastrous war or by way of revolution. The revolutionary way is the least promising, simply because under socialism the will to resist weakens in proportion to the people's adjustment to regulation, control, and domination. Because that is the only way to rub along, they make peace with the conditions imposed on them; they lose the habit of sell-respect.
Thus, in this country it has become quite proper for bankers and industrialists to stand in the Washington line with "tin cups" in their hands, for veterans and the unemployed to press for handouts, for farmers to expect subsidies, for the educational fraternity and the ministry to maintain bounty-begging lobbies. All this is the regular order of things; freedom, which demands self-reliance, is out of style. If the miraculous politician should come along, and urge that all this paternalism should be abandoned, as well as the income tax, he would probably receive short shrift from the public."
Remind you of anyone?
"Once socialism gets hold of a country, there seems to be nothing that will pry it loose except a complete collapse of the political setup, either as the result of a disastrous war or by way of revolution. The revolutionary way is the least promising, simply because under socialism the will to resist weakens in proportion to the people's adjustment to regulation, control, and domination. Because that is the only way to rub along, they make peace with the conditions imposed on them; they lose the habit of sell-respect.
Thus, in this country it has become quite proper for bankers and industrialists to stand in the Washington line with "tin cups" in their hands, for veterans and the unemployed to press for handouts, for farmers to expect subsidies, for the educational fraternity and the ministry to maintain bounty-begging lobbies. All this is the regular order of things; freedom, which demands self-reliance, is out of style. If the miraculous politician should come along, and urge that all this paternalism should be abandoned, as well as the income tax, he would probably receive short shrift from the public."
Remind you of anyone?