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[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008, Fairlight wrote:
>On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 09:32:09AM -0700, after drawing runes in goat's blood,
>Bill Campbell cast forth these immortal, mystical words:
>> 
>> What's the difference between the IRS and a common thief?  The
>> thief doesn't make his victims fill out forms.
>
>I dunno, what with phishing web sites nowadays...

At least the phishers are honest thieves, and don't have a legal
monopoly on force.

     If the government can take a man's money without his consent,
     there is no limit to the additional tyranny it may practise
     upon him; for, with his money, it can hire soldiers to stand
     over him, keep him in subjection, plunder him at discretion,
     and kill him if he resists.  Lysander Spooner, 1852

     "If taxation without consent is robbery, the United States
     government has never had, has not now, and is never likely to
     have, a single honest dollar in its treasury." -- Lysander
     Spooner, Letter to Grover Cleveland 1886

     "If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of
     robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all
     their robberies are legalized." -- Lysander Spooner, Letter to
     Grover Cleveland 1886

     Fair is the most dangerous word a politician utters. Whenever a
     government does something for someone, it must do something to
     someone.

     A perpetual and unlimited debt represents deficit spending as a
     social principle. It means a progressive redistribution of
     wealth by will of government until there is no more fat to
     divide; after that comes a level rationing of the national
     income. It means in the end the cheapening of money and then
     inflation, whereby the middle class is economically murdered in
     its sleep. In the arsenal of revolution the perfect weapon is
     inflation. -- Garet Garrett, The Revolution Was

      ...government has nothing to give to anybody that it doesn't
     first take from somebody else.  In other workds, all its relief
     and subsidy schemes are merely ways of robbing Peter to support
     Paul -- Henry Hazlitt

     Government is the great fiction, through which everbody
     endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.  --
     Frederic Bastiat

Bill
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