RandEastwood.com | I’ve written on this topic before, and my position hasn’t changed: people who don’t keep their time commitments, those who are perpetually late—for no substantial reason—are irresponsible, and inconsiderate. They do not respect others or their time, and worse: and they do not even respect themselves.
Everything-Voluntary.com | The state only deals with people by hurting, killing, caging, and robbing them. It wraps these actions up in hundreds of thousands of pages of demands, orders, mandates, regulations, prohibitions, licenses, and certificates; but the bureaucratic maze which supposedly allows individuals to escape unscathed is an illusion. If you succeed, they tax you; if you fail, they fine you, but you are extorted regardless. If you resist, they kill you; if you submit, they cage you, but your freedom is obliterated either way. If a particular freedom is widely enjoyed, it will be forbidden except to those who purchase permission in the form of a license. The state claims jurisdiction over your life, liberty, and property; and it will not hesitate to deprive you of any or all of these at the slightest provocation.
ThePriceOfLiberty.org | Some people tell us that paying taxes is NOT the same as being enslaved, but I have a hard time understanding this. If I have to give the money I earn for more than 2 out of 8 hours each working day, for which I may (or may not) receive services, but over which I have little or no control, what is the difference? Sure, the working conditions MIGHT be better, but not all dem slaves was pickin’ cotton in the field, bro.
KentForLiberty | Almost everyone seems to have opinions about what you and I should or should not do. Most are willing to impose their opinions through laws, which they are willing to have enforced with violence.
FEE.org | Do you notice a pattern when dealing with any aspect of the government at nearly any level? We all have. Experience shows that if something is going to go really wrong, predictably waste your time, annoy you and attack your dignity, and finally just prove to be totally ineffective at accomplishing the task, there’s a good chance that it involves the government. This is one of the most persistent and yet least acknowledged features of modern life.