TAXATION: The difference between death and taxes is: death doesnt get worse every time Congress meets.” - Will Rogers, 1920’s. – Another version: The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesnt get worse every time Congress meets. - American humorist Will Rogers - The simple fact that more and more taxes are imposed and increased, while almost no one likes taxes and increase in taxes, proves that governments are no longer sufficiently representative even of the majority, far less of all the more or less suppressed and exploited minorities. - JZ, 29.1.02. - Premature death becomes also more and more likely, e.g., as long as nuclear strength and centralized decision-making powers on war and peace, armament and disarmament and international treaties are not being abolished. - JZ, 23. 11. 06. – CONGRESS, DEATH, STATISM, TERRITORIALISM, GOBENRMENTS, DECISION-MAKING MONOPOLIES TAXATION: The Government and big business hold hands - in your pockets. - David Lewis, THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, 14.10.72. TAXATION: The immense and ever increasing sums which the state wrings from the people are never enough for it; it mortgages the income of future generations, and steers resolutely toward bankruptcy.” – P. A. Kropotkin, Paroles d’un révolté, 1884. - Austrian joke after WW I: “The government never goes bankrupt. Only its creditors do!” – But the German professor Manes wrote an excellent book on state bankruptcies: Prof. Alfred Manes, Staatsbankrotte, wirtschaftliche und rechtliche Betrachtungen, 1918, 3. Auflage 1922, 290 S. – I reproduced it in PEACE PLANS 635 on microfiche. – JZ, 20.7.08. – BANKRUPTCIES OF STATES
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