Quotes

"Fascism and communism both promise "social welfare," "social justice," and "fairness" to justify authoritarian means and extensive arbitrary and discretionary governmental powers." - F. A. Hayek"

"Life is a Bungling process and in no way educational." in James M. Cain

Jean Giraudoux who first said, “Only the mediocre are always at their best.”

If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law. Sir Winston Churchill

"summum ius summa iniuria" ("More laws, more injustice.") Cicero

As Christopher Hitchens once put it, “The essence of tyranny is not iron law; it is capricious law.”

"Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." Ronald Reagan

"Law is where you buy it." Raymond Chandler

"Why did God make so many damn fools and Democrats?" Clarence Day

"If I feel like feeding squirrels to the nuts, this is the place for it." - Cluny Brown

"Oh, pshaw! When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have." Owen Wister "The Virginian"

Oscar Wilde said about the death scene in Little Nell, you would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh.

Thomas More's definition of government as "a conspiracy of rich men procuring their own commodities under the name and title of a commonwealth.” ~ Winston S. Churchill, A History of the English Speaking Peoples

“Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.” ~ Jonathon Swift

Thursday, November 28, 2013

Who the Hell DO THEY THINK THEY ARE (I know, the Gestapo) Your IRS Win of the Day

It is a surprise that they haven't incarcerated the family members she left behind as hostages. Hope they don't get any ideas. m/r

VodkaPundit » Your IRS Win of the Day
By Stephen Green On November 27, 2013
Well, they call it winning:
For Ruth Anne Freeborn, it boiled down to a choice between country and family.
Born in Oklahoma, Freeborn has lived in Kingston, Ontario, for more than 30 years as an American expatriate, with a Canadian husband and 22-year-old son.
But a U.S. law passed in 2010 that will require international financial institutions to provide the Internal Revenue Service with information on their U.S. account holders forced her to weigh her citizenship. Her husband, a $51,000-a-year electronics technician and the family’s sole income earner, strenuously objected to having his financial data shared with a foreign nation.
“My decision was either to protect my Canadian spouse and child from this overreach or I could relinquish my U.S. citizenship,” she said. “It was with great sorrow I felt I had to relinquish, but there was no other choice for me and many like me.”
I know I’ve plugged The Sovereign Individual before, but do pick up a copy if you don’t already own one. Authors James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg turned out to be pants-messing prescient, especially regarding how downright vindictive the United States government would become — and its chief tool for oppression, the Internal Revenue Service.
When they published the book in 1999, they made what seemed like an outrageous claim — that soon a US passport would become an expense many people could no longer afford. And here it is, coming true. If they missed anything, it’s that the IRS would become such a nakedly partisan tool. But I don’t think they saw the Chicago Machine taking over Washington, either.
So buy a copy and get yourself ready for a bumpy ride.
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