by Matthew Bransgrove | Oct 9, 2015 | Taxation
The tyranny of progressive taxes But in all cases, when those who lay the tax upon others exempt themselves, there is tyranny. —Joseph Priestley. An Essay on the First Principles of Government and on the Nature of Political, Civil, and Religious Liberty, 1771....
by Matthew Bransgrove | Oct 9, 2015 | Taxation
But great as our tax burden is, it has not kept pace with public spending. For decades, we have piled deficit upon deficit, mortgaging our future and our children’s future for the temporary convenience of the present. To continue this long trend is to guarantee...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Oct 9, 2015 | Taxation
We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts, as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Oct 9, 2015 | Taxation
By continual taxes and seizures upon what they gain, poverty subdues their spirits, and makes them more patiently suffer all kind of injustice and violence that can be offered them, without thoughts or motion to rebellion: And so … it is impossible for a people...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Oct 9, 2015 | Taxation
Public servants say, always with the best of intentions, “What greater service we could render if only we had a little more money and a little more power.” But the truth is that outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or as economically as...
