“Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons and gendarmes at the service of the plunderers, and treats the victim - when he defends himself - as a criminal.” “When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves, in the course of time, a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.” – Frédéric Bastiat (Both) Plunder comes at the risk of life and limb. The presence of plunder destroys the incentive to produce and the incentive to save. The presence of plunder not only lowers everybodys standard of living, the reduction or absence of savings makes it difficult to the point of being impossible for standards of living to increase. There is no free lunch for the plunderers or the plundered. -George Santayana We let men take wealth which is not theirs; if the seizure is legal we call it high profits and the profiteers help decide what is legal. - W.E.B. DuBois. To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder. -Benjamin Disraeli Via Paul Shoffner
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