When Alexander the Great visited the philosopher Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for him, Diogenes is said to have replied: ‘Yes, sta… - Henry Hazlitt

the larger the percentage of the national income taken by taxes the greater the deterrent to private production and employment. When the total tax burden grows beyond a bearable size, the problem of devising taxes that will not discourage and disrupt production becomes insoluble.

people are becoming aware that government has nothing to give them without first taking it away from somebody else — or from themselves. Increased handouts to selected groups mean merely increased taxes, or increased deficits and increased inflation.

The notion that we can dismiss the views of all previous thinkers surely leaves no basis for the hope that our own work will prove of any value to others.