Quotes
- Dick Armey
- Bill Thomas
- Charles Adams
- Free Market Net
- Alan Keyes
- John Linder
- Christopher Cross & The Manchester Union Leader
- Paul O’Neill
- Robert Schulz
- Will Rogers
- World Tax Payers Association
- That
Yearly Act of Civic Servility
That yearly act of civic servility
Former Reagan administration official Alan Keyes, <mailto:info@alankeyes.com> was U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Social and Economic Council and 2000 Republican presidential candidate.
Excerpt: The accomplishment of tax liberation will require that we rouse ourselves sufficiently at least to imagine what tax freedom would be like and that we have the faith to move toward that freedom even if every detail is not perfectly foreseen. In economic as well as political affairs, a free people must sometimes earn that freedom by bearing the burden of the risks involved in change. As with all human action, the risks of intelligent change seem greater than they are and the risk of clinging to the familiar is frequently the greatest risk of all. We should have the courage to embrace the agenda of tax liberty, confident in the fruits it will bear for the whole society, just as our Founders moved courageously to make political liberty a reality. They acted in the face of much greater risks than we face from a mere change of the form of taxation. The implications of the challenge of tax reform go well beyond the dollars and cents of tax policy and, if we shrink from it, we will be shrinking from the kind of responsible action that constitutes practical self-government. In facing the challenge to reclaim control of our wealth, however, we will demonstrate to ourselves and our government whether we retain the capacity to do what only a free people can -- to shape our own future by our own choices in the face of an always imperfectly knowable future. Or, do we prefer to continue letting a jackbooted IRS shape our future for us?
- Warren S. Richardson
- Congressman Bartlett
- Albert Einstein
- Ron Paul
- James Traficant