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"Bad Money Drives Out Good", Freedom Daily, Dec 2003
Related Topic: Money |
Lincoln’s Presidential Warrant to Arrest Chief Justice Roger B. Taney: 'A Great Crime' or a Fabrication?, 5 Jan 2004
Related Topic: Abraham Lincoln
"... during those chaotic first months of the Civil War, it would not have been so unthinkable to arrest and silence Taney. The military arrested people in all walks of life. ... Lincoln expressed that policy to a Chicago clergyman: 'As commander in chief of the army and navy, in time of war, I suppose I have a right to take any measure which may best subdue the enemy.'" |
The Future of an Illusion: Kerry’s Tax Policy, 21 Sep 2004
Related Topic: Taxation
"The middle classes have always been the only dependable source for taxes. ... A government cannot force a wealthy taxpayer to work if the taxpayer finds the tax rates personally intolerable ... if Kerry’s sock the rich tax policy becomes law, we can predict with certainty, that most of these taxpayers will disappear ..." |
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The Rocky Road of American Taxation, Mises.org Daily Article, 15 Apr 2006
Related Topics: Taxation, Samuel Adams, American Revolutionary War, Canada, Thirteen Colonies, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Private Property, Right Against Unreasonable Searches and Seizures, Voting, War
Adapted from the author's For Good and Evil: The Impact of Taxes on the Course of Civilization
"No modern revolution was deeper rooted in taxation than the revolt of the Thirteen Colonies ... British taxation not only caused the revolution, but perhaps most important, it acted as a unifying force in the colonies. ... The American independence movement ... began in 1766 when colonial leaders met to protest British taxes under the Stamp Act." |
What Nat King Cole Would Have Told Martha Stewart, 12 Mar 2004
"[Nat King Cole's] attorney instructed him to tell the feds, if they contacted him: 'I will sing for you, but if you want to talk, you will have to talk with my attorney.' ... Martha could have told the feds, 'I will bake you a pie.'" |
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Fight, Flight and Fraud: The Story of Taxation, 1982
Related Topic: Taxation |
- ISBN 094437977X: Hardcover, Euro-Dutch Publishers, 1982
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For Good and Evil: The Impact of Taxes on the Course of Civilization, 1993
Related Topic: Taxation |
- ISBN 0819186317: Hardcover, Madison Books, 1992
- ISBN 1568331231: Hardcover, Madison Books, 2nd edition, 1999
- ISBN 1568330243: Paperback, Madison Books, Reprint edition, 1994
- ISBN 1568332351: Paperback, Madison Books, 2nd edition, 2001
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Those Dirty Rotten Taxes: The Tax Revolts that Built America, 1998
Related Topic: Taxation |
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When in the Course of Human Events: Arguing the Case for Southern Secession, 2000
Related Topic: American War Between the States |
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