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“Taxation is theft, purely and simply even though it is theft on a grand and colossal scale which no acknowledged criminals could hope to…

— Murray N. Rothbard

“The State obtains its revenue by coercion, by threatening dire penalties should the income not be forthcoming. That coercion is known as “taxation,” although…

— Murray N. Rothbard

I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum.

— William Weld

Just remember, stealing's punishable by death

— Suzanne Collins

It would be an instructive exercise for the skeptical reader to try to frame a definition of taxation which does not also include theft.…

— Murray Rothbard

Stealing from capitalism is not like stealing out of our own pockets. Marx and Lenin have taught us that anything is ethical, so long…

— Nicolae Ceausescu

Stealing, of course, is a crime, and a very impolite thing to do. But like most impolite things, it is excusable under certain circumstances.…

— Anonymous

Every tax or rate, forcibly taken from an unwilling person, is immoral and oppressive.

— Auberon Herbert

“For it is too extreme and cruel a punishment for theft, and yet not sufficient to restrain men from theft. For simple theft is…

— Thomas More

I believe that the levels of taxation advocated by liberals render those taxes a veiled form of theft. 'Give me more than half of…

— Dennis Prager

Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they…

— Albert Camus

There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves, but it were much better to make such good provisions by which every man might be put…

— Thomas More