Citizens Quote by Charles Hugh Smith

“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

What is it but a cunningly devised scheme to take from one State and to give to another - to replenish the treasury of…

— John C. Calhoun

A State can sue for negligence as well as fraud damages.

— Barbara Ann Radnofsky

It is fraud to accept what you cannot repay.

— Publilius Syrus

“Dishonorable people do not honor their arrangements. A bill of sale only requires payment, a contract only requires completion, and/or a debt merely requires…

— Akutra-Ramses Atenosis Cea

State constitutions typically provide that the state first has to service its debt, then make it pension payments, and then pay for services. What…

— Eugene Fama

You pay for what you get, you own what you pay for... and sooner or later whatever you own comes back home to you.

— Stephen King

It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of…

— Albert J. Nock

When someone commits fraud against the state, they are stealing from all Virginians.

— Glenn Youngkin

Credit is a system whereby a person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay

— Charles Dickens

Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be…

— Baron de Montesquieu

The stomach begs and clamors, and listens to no precepts. And yet it is not an obdurate creditor; for it is dismissed with small…

— Seneca the Younger