Governments confiscate more than a third of all family income. Each year the average American taxpayer works 127 days, from January 1st until May 7th — just to pay taxes. —Thomas DiLorenzo
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Thus, Lincoln “saved” the federal union in the same sense that a man who has been abusing his wife “saves” his marital union by violently forcing his wife back into the home and threatening to shoot her if she leaves again. The union may well be saved, but it is not the same kind of union that existed on their wedding day. That union no longer exists. The American union of the founding fathers ceased to exist in April of 1865. —Thomas DiLorenzo, Lincoln Unmasked
The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think for himself. —Thomas DiLorenzo, The Problem with Socialism
In government, the worse an agency performs, the more money it can claim from a legislature. If state-run schools fail to educate children, then obviously they need more money… If the welfare state fails to reduce, or actually increases, poverty then obviously, say the bureaucrats, we need to expand welfare programs even further. —Thomas DiLorenzo, The Problem with Socialism