Provocative thoughts

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I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

- Winston Churchill
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In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.

- Voltaire (1764)
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Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
-- Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)

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The borrower is servant to the lender.
Bible, Proverbs 22:7