Assets Quote by Murray Rothbard

“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

Taxation is nothing but organized robbery, and there the subject should be dropped.

— Frank Chodorov

“If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their robberies are…

— Lysander Spooner

Taxation is robbery based on monopoly of weapons

— Robert Anton Wilson

“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

The crime of taxation is not in the taking it, it's in the way that it's spent.

— Will Rogers

“It’s as if the concept of taxation as theft—rather than as a shared burden that all should contribute toward as the cost of maintaining…

— Bruce Bartlett

Confiscatory taxation enforced by threat of imprisonment is 'stealing,' a practice strongly frowned upon by our Creator.

— Ann Coulter

If taxation without consent is robbery, the United States government has never had, has not now, and is never likely to have, a single…

— Lysander Spooner

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

— Calvin Coolidge

An expropriating property protector (the state, through taxation) is a contradiction in terms

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe

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