“What I do know is, in little more than 30 years, we have gone from a nation where the “quiet enjoyment” of one’s private property was a sacred right, to a day when the so-called property “owner” faces a hovering hoard of taxmen and regulators threatening to lien, foreclose, and “go to auction” at the first sign of private defiance of their collective will ... a relationship between government and private property rights which my dictionary defines as “fascism.””
![“The difference between [socialism and fascism] is superficial and purely formal, but it is significant psychologically: it brings the authoritarian nature of a planned economy crudely into the open. The main characteristic of socialism (and of communism) is public ownership of the means of…” quote by Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/20c/ayn-rand-59_abolition_the-difference-between-socialism-and-fas_1991866.jpg)
![“[T]he crucial question is not, as so many believe, whether property rights should be private or governmental, but rather whether the necessarily 'private' owners are legitimate owners or criminals. For ultimately, there is no entity called 'government'; there are only people forming themselves…” quote by Murray Rothbard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/da4/murray-rothbard-1563_acting_t-he-crucial-question-is-not-as-so-many_2945660.jpg)
![“If you didn't auction the [CO2] permits, it would represent the largest corporate welfare program that has ever been enacted in the history of the United States. All of the evidence is that what would occur is that corporate profits would increase by approximately the value of the permits.” quote by Peter R. Orszag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/45c/peter-r-orszag-82656_auctions_if-you-didn-t-auction-the-co2-permits-it_476302.jpg)
