War is the common harvest of all those who participate in the division and expenditure of public money, in all countries. It is the art of conquering at home: the object of it is an increase of revenue; and as revenue cannot be increased without taxes, a pretence must be made for expenditures. In reviewing the history of the English government, its wars, and taxes, an observer, not blinded by prejudice, nor warped by interest would declare, that taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes.
-Thomas Paine, Rights of Man
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April 21st, 2002 | Comments are closed
 I started out my political life as a bedwetting liberal. Young, idealistic and dumb. Then I started paying income taxes… April 20th, 2002 | Comments are closed
April 18th, 2002 | Comments are closed
I can’t go to work today. The voices told me to stay home and clean the guns. April 17th, 2002 | Comments are closed
When the Mafia offers you protection, you pay up or they send some goombahs in dark suits around to pay you a visit. April 16th, 2002 | Comments are closed
You might want to take some time today, of all days, to check out The Centre for Freedom and Prosperity. If you need to know why you should look into the idea of organising your life around off-shore banking and business, then might I suggest you need look no further than what today means for your personal wealth… or at least the part of it you are permitted to keep. Avoiding tax all together can be difficult for most people but you owe it to yourself to try and minimise the extent to which you are financing your own repression (and mine too). It is quite possible to do it by using the law against itself, though frankly whatever means you have to use when dealing with the state is fine by me. Any oath or declaration extracted under the threat of force has no moral basis whatsoever and breaking it is just a matter of deciding based on risk/benefit analysis, not morality.  April 15th, 2002 | Comments are closed
The taxpayer; that’s someone who works for the federal government, but doesn’t have to take a civil service examination. April 15th, 2002 | Comments are closed
The knell of capitalist private property sounds. The expropriators are expropriated. This is very exciting and has delighted generations of socialist zealots. But it has no more claim to be a scientific projection than an astrologer’s almanac. April 14th, 2002 | Comments are closed
God save me from my friends. I can protect myself from my enemies Harry Browne comes to mind April 13th, 2002 | Comments are closed
‘Please do not ask for credit as a kick in the bollocks often offends’ It is good to see the private sector doing its part in discouraging unwise accumulation of debt in this era of absurdly low interest rates April 12th, 2002 | Comments are closed
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. April 11th, 2002 | Comments are closed
April 10th, 2002 | Comments are closed
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