R. Lee Wrights (1958–2017) American gubernatorial candidate
2012, " The Fair Tax Isn't Fair, It's a Farce http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=7101"
"The Unnecessary Depression".
Context: All real libertarians are dedicated to the eventual elimination of all taxes. That's one way you can tell them from the fakes. If anyone asks what government will run on, tell them it's not our problem. If they can create a 'government' that doesn't initiate force and steal from us, that doesn't break things and kill people in the enforcement of the will of parasites, that doesn't subsist by beating individuals up and killing them, they're welcome to try. Just leave us out of it altogether.
R. Lee Wrights (1958–2017) American gubernatorial candidate
2012, " The Fair Tax Isn't Fair, It's a Farce http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=7101"
“We may eliminate death someday but I doubt if we’ll ever eliminate taxes.”
Robert A. Heinlein book I Will Fear No Evil
Source: I Will Fear No Evil (1970), Chapter 24, p. 406
Al Gore (1948) 45th Vice President of the United States
Quotes, NYU Law School speech (2006)
Context: For the last fourteen years, I have advocated the elimination of all payroll taxes — including those for social security and unemployment compensation — and the replacement of that revenue in the form of pollution taxes — principally on CO2. The overall level of taxation would remain exactly the same. It would be, in other words, a revenue neutral tax swap. But, instead of discouraging businesses from hiring more employees, it would discourage business from producing more pollution.
Global warming pollution, indeed all pollution, is now described by economists as an "externality." This absurd label means, in essence: we don't need to keep track of this stuff so let's pretend it doesn't exist.
And sure enough, when it's not recognized in the marketplace, it does make it much easier for government, business, and all the rest of us to pretend that it doesn't exist. But what we're pretending doesn't exist is the stuff that is destroying the habitability of the planet.
Gary Johnson (1953) American politician, businessman, and 29th Governor of New Mexico
2016, Interview with CNBC's John Harwood (August 22, 2016)
George Shultz (1920) American economist, statesman, and businessman
Why We Support a Revenue-Neutral Carbon Tax: Coupled with the elimination of costly energy subsidies, it would encourage competition. http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323611604578396401965799658 "Commentary" article in the Wall Street Journal, co-authored with the Nobel-Prize-winning economist Gary Becker, dated April 7, 2013.
Gary S. Becker (1930–2014) American economist
Why We Support a Revenue-Neutral Carbon Tax: Coupled with the elimination of costly energy subsidies, it would encourage competition. http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323611604578396401965799658 "Commentary" article in the Wall Street Journal, co-authored with George P. Shultz, dated April 7, 2013.
George Orwell (1903–1950) English author and journalist
Letter to Malcolm Muggeridge (4 December 1948), quoted in Malcolm Muggeridge: A Life (1980) by Ian Hunter
Source: The Lost Orwell: Being a Supplement to The Complete Works of George Orwell
Joseph Massad (1963) Associate Professor of Arab Studies
Ibid.
"The Ends of Zionism: Racism and the Palestinian Struggle"
“If you eliminate all the words of a subject, you have eliminated the subject.”
Neil Postman (1931–2003) American writer and academic
Language Education in a Knowledge Context (1980)
Context: As one learns the language of a subject, one is also learning what the subject is.... what we call a subject consists mostly, if not entirely, of its language. If you eliminate all the words of a subject, you have eliminated the subject.