Samuel Adams on Taxation
If you believe, like I do, that taxation is theft, you might be interested in what Samuel Adams had to say on the subject.
If you believe, like I do, that taxation is theft, you might be interested in what Samuel Adams had to say on the subject.
2017 is looking bright and I am encouraged! As Americans, we were granted a “stay of execution” by the grace of almighty God. Michigan is now a RED state for the 1st time since 1988! Something that many thought would never happen. Just like many thought Michigan would never become a Right to Work state. …
Should government be allowed to tax everything? Should elected officials have the power and the latitude to tax every transaction, every activity, every non-activity, and every single little thing in our brief little lives? As it is, government already taxes income, production, consumption, ownership, death, and sin. And if they wanted to they could tax…
Downtown Lansing, Capital Square In our last Newsletter we spoke about Senator Colbeck’s challenge to his colleagues in the Senate and House to dispense with politics-as-usual and debate on road funding to fix roads without raising your taxes in an open and public manner. SEE IT ON YOU TUBE HERE Someone has taken …
“The simplification of anything is always sensational.” “There is only one thing that stands in our midst, attenuated and threatened, but enthroned in some power like a ghost of the Middle Ages: the Trade Unions.” – A Short History of England - G. K. Chesterton Quotes We have an opportunity here to fix roads …
“Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.” Calvin Coolidge “I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse, and in a Republican Government a greater curse than any other” – James Madison Today is the day Michigan citizens send a message: We will no longer tolerate …
“Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.”- Calvin Coolidge “I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse, and in a Republican Government a greater curse than any other” – James Madison First off we need to remember that Prop 1 is tied to a whole bunch …
“The ultimate arbiter is the people of the Union.” Thomas Jefferson letter to William Johnson — 1823 Despite the best efforts, arm twisting, promises and amendment upon amendment) of Gov. Snyder, Senate majority leader Randy Richardville (term limited) and Speaker of the House Jase Bolger (term limited) to put lipstick on a pig the …
“Excessive taxation…will carry reason and reflection to every man’s door, and particularly in the hour of election” Jefferson letter to John Taylor — 1798 This it it folks, Senate Majority leader, Randy Richardville is pushing for a roll call vote today because he is being pushed by the Governor to increase fuel or sales …
“An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation.” John Marshall ~ McCullough v. Maryland — 1819 “The power to tax is the power to destroy.” Ronald Reagan ~ Address to the Nation on Tax Reform, May 28, …