Government Quote by Doug Henwood

Taxing the rich to fund the poorly managed government programs is simply a self-destructive decision: It does nothing more than move money and investment…

— T. J. Rodgers

The government's coercive taxing power necessarily creates two classes: those who create and those who consume the wealth expropriated and transferred by that power.

— Sheldon Richman

Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.

— C. Northcote Parkinson

Governments should end the extreme concentration of wealth in order to end poverty. This means tackling tax dodging but also increasing taxes on wealth…

— Winnie Byanyima

Governments, of course, can - and do - soak the rich.

— Anonymous

Society ... can afford to grant more than before because its interests have become the innermost drives of its citizens.

— Herbert Marcuse

Governments steal from citizens through taxes and through the subterfuge of monetizing their own IOUs.

— John Pugsley

The government doesn't have any money. The only power it has is to take from some and give to others.

— Milton Friedman

Everything we get, outside of the free gifts of nature, must in some way be paid for. The world is full of so- called…

— Henry Hazlitt

The government can give citizens opportunity and it's their responsibility to take advantage of it.

— Michael Mandelbaum

When you talk about taxing the rich, you're taxing capital, and taxing capital results in damage to more than just the wealthy.

— Rush Limbaugh

If the money is raised by taxation, then the burden will fall where it ought to fall, . . . and the rich and…

— Robert Green Ingersoll