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Popular suffrage is in itself no guarantee of freedom. People can vote themselves into slavery.

— Frank Chodorov The Income Tax: Root of All Evil (1954)

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Taxation is nothing but organized robbery, and there the subject should be dropped.

The Economics of Society, Government, and State (1946)

There cannot be a good tax nor a just one; every tax rests its case on compulsion.

All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates.

Fugitive Essays: Selected Writings of Frank Chodorov (1980)

The State acquires power at the expense of freedom, and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates.

Neither thieves nor officials produce a marketable good to offset what they take; they contribute nothing to the purchasing power because they contribute nothing to the general fund of wealth.

Fugitive Essays: Selected Writings of Frank Chodorov (1980)

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