Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2026-04-11 Apr 10, 2026Any one of the strange laws we suffer is a compromise between a fad and a vested interest.~ Gilbert Keith ChestertonOur federal tax system is, in short, utterly impossible, utterly unjust and completely counterproductive, [it] reeks with injustice and is fundamentally un-American... it has earned a rebellion and it's time we rebelled.~ Ronald ReaganThe government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.~ Sam Ewing Apr 9, 2026I wasn't worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two million dollars.~ Mark Twain[R]evenues drive expenditures, not the inverse. ... tax evasion represents a net benefit to everybody ... A statue should be erected to the unknown tax evader.~ Pierre LemieuxAsk the first man you meet what he means by defending freedom, and he'll tell you privately he means defending the standard of living.~ Reverend Martin Niemoeller Apr 8, 2026The creation of money exclusively as debt is the critical, destabilizing flaw in the American Economy.~ Theodore R. ThorenWars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.~ Ezra PoundGold is the money of kings; silver is the money of gentlemen; barter is the money of peasants; but debt is the money of slaves.~ Norm Franz Apr 7, 2026The apportionment of taxes on the various descriptions of property is an act which seems to require the most exact impartiality; yet there is, perhaps, no legislative act in which greater opportunity and temptation are given to a predominant party to trample on the rules of justice. Every shilling which they overburden the inferior number is a shilling saved to their own pockets.~ James MadisonHistorians and economists are very good at creating and perpetuating myths that justify increasing the power placed in the hands of government.~ Reuven BrennerThe Constitution prohibits any direct tax, unless in proportion to numbers as ascertained by the census..... [and] ... prohibits Congress from laying a direct tax on the revenue from property of the citizen without regard to state lines...~ United States Supreme Court Apr 6, 2026Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find - nothing.~ AesopOur practical choice is not between a tax-cut deficit and a budgetary surplus. It is between two kinds of deficits: a chronic deficit of inertia, as the unwanted result of inadequate revenues and a restricted economy; or a temporary deficit of transition, resulting from a tax cut designed to boost the economy, increase tax revenues, and achieve -- and I believe this can be done -- a budget surplus. The first type of deficit is a sign of waste and weakness; the second reflects an investment in the future.~ John F. KennedyThe study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it.~ John Kenneth Galbraith Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print