Frank Chodorov
Frank Chodorov
Frank Chodorovwas an American member of the Old Right, a group of libertarian thinkers who were non-interventionist in foreign policy and opposed both the American entry into World War II and the New Deal. He was called by Ralph Raico "the last of the Old Right greats."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
taxation should robbery
Taxation is nothing but organized robbery, and there the subject should be dropped.
russia united-states defeat
Increasing the power of the state in response to the Soviet menace would not defeat socialism in Russia but bring it to the United States.
government different income
Income and inheritance taxes imply the denial of private property, and in that are different in principle from all other taxes. The government says to the citizen: “Your earnings are not exclusively your own; we have a claim on them, and our claim precedes yours; we will allow you to keep some of it, because we recognize your need, not your right; but whatever we grant you for yourself is for us to decide.
law government liberty
We cannot restore traditional American freedom unless we limit the government's power to tax. No tinkering with this, that, or the other law will stop the trend toward socialism. We must repeal the Sixteenth Amendment.
pyramids steam states
Private capitalism makes a steam engine; State capitalism makes pyramids.
people liberty guarantees
Popular suffrage is in itself no guarantee of freedom. People can vote themselves into slavery.
hate ambition mean
The only beneficiaries of income taxation are the politicians, for it not only gives them the means by which they can increase their emoluments, but it also enables them to improve their importance. The have-nots who support the politicians in the demand for income taxation do so only because they hate the haves; . . . the sum of all the arguments for income taxation comes to political ambition and the sin of covetousness.
liberty libertarian cases
There cannot be a good tax nor a just one; every tax rests its case on compulsion.
attitude pride reason
If for no other reason, personal pride should prompt every governor and state legislator to take a secessionist attitude; they were not elected to be lackeys of the federal bureaucracy.
giving-up war lust
The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates.
men toil cost
Society thrives on trade simply because trade makes specialization possible, and specialization increases output, and increased output reduces the cost in toil for the satisfactions men live by. That being so, the market place is a most humane institution.
free-education medicine office
The more subsidized it is, the less free it is. What is known as 'free education' is the least free of all, for it is a state-owned institution; it is socialized education - just like socialized medicine or the socialized post office - and cannot possibly be separated from political control.
mean people political
[When people] say 'let's do something about it,' they mean 'let's get hold of the political machinery so that we can do something to somebody else.' And that somebody is invariably you.
character men law
Freedom is essentially a condition of inequality, not equality. It recognizes as a fact of nature the structural differences inherent in man - in temperament, character, and capacity - and it respects those differences. We are not alike and no law can make us so.