Differences Quote by Walter E. Williams

Three-fifths to two-thirds of the federal budget consists of taking property from one American and giving it to another. Were a private person to…

— Walter E. Williams

When your money is taken by a thief, you get nothing in return. When your money is taken through taxes to support needless bureaucrats,…

— Henry Hazlitt

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

“The Realistic Vision acknowledges that people vary widely both physically and intellectually—in large part because of natural inherited differences—and therefore will rise (or fall)…

— Michael Shermer

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

— John Pugsley

Notwithstanding what some regard as the institutionalization of compassion, the transfer society quashes genuine virtue. Redistribution of income by means of government coercion is…

— Robert Higgs

It is certain that stealing nourishes courage, strength, skill, tact, in a word, all the virtues useful to a republican system and consequently to…

— Marquis de Sade

The redistribution of wealth creates dependence on the people to whom it is redistributed, it doesn't incentivize them to create their own wealth.

— Andrew Napolitano

People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income…

— Cal Thomas

Ironically, in the full-fledged transfer society, where governments busy themselves redistributing income by means of hundreds of distinct programs, hardly anyone is better off…

— Robert Higgs

Practically all government attempts to redistribute wealth and income tend to smother productive incentives and lead toward general impoverishment.

— Henry Hazlitt

By its nature, governments and taxes are not voluntary. Government actions are violent and coercive, and theft as well.

— Jeff Berwick