Taxation as Theft

Jeffry Gardner reports:

Here's an interesting quote from the New York Times: "When men get in the habit of helping themselves to the property of others, they cannot easily be cured of it."

You'll be stunned to learn that those words were in reference to income taxes and not thievery - mere semantics, of course. Unfortunately they were written nearly 100 years ago, in a 1909 editorial protesting the first federal income tax, to be precise.

That, as they say, was then, long before we became so inured to the notion of redistributing wealth.

Plunder on a grand scale.