Category Archives: Quotations Freedom

How do people live without working? Millions in the bottom 20 percent …

How do people live without working? Millions in the bottom 20 percent live on the money earned by other people who do work and whose income gets taxed to pay for the non-workers. In addition, more than 4 million families in the bottom fifth in income live on property income and nearly 6 million live on various forms of retirement income, including Social Security. (Table FINC-06, for those who demand proof only from those they disagree with.) Thomas Sowell
May 2, 2003

The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are …

The most important element of a free society, where individual rights areheld in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.All initiation of force is a violation of someone else’s rights, whether initiated by anindividual or the state, for the benefit of an individual or group of individuals,even if it’s supposed to be for the benefit of another individual or group of individuals. Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required inself-defense. Ron Paul
M.D., US Representative ( Texas – R )

[A]n economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough revenues to balance our budget, just as it will never produce enough jobs or enough profits. Surely the lesson of the last decade is that budget deficits are not caused by wild-eyed spenders but by slow economic growth and periodic recessions. And any new recession would break all budget deficit records.In short, it is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high today and tax revenues are too low. And the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now. John F. Kennedy
Economic Club of New York, December 14, 1962 on supply side taxes cuts [the full out-take is in the database], 35th President of the United States, 1961-1963 (1917-1963)