“The Government cannot afford to have a country made up entirely of rich people, because rich people pay so little tax that the Government would quickly go bankrupt. This is why Government men always tell us that labor is man's noblest calling. Government needs labor to pay its upkeep.”
"Lost Labor Love" (p.172)
So This Is Depravity (1980)
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Fourth Annual Message (3 December 1888)
Context: Communism is a hateful thing and a menace to peace and organized government; but the communism of combined wealth and capital, the outgrowth of overweening cupidity and selfishness, which insidiously undermines the justice and integrity of free institutions, is not less dangerous than the communism of oppressed poverty and toil, which, exasperated by injustice and discontent, attacks with wild disorder the citadel of rule.
He mocks the people who proposes that the Government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor. Any intermediary between the people and their Government or the least delegation of the care and protection the Government owes to the humblest citizen in the land makes the boast of free institutions a glittering delusion and the pretended boon of American citizenship a shameless imposition.

The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody (1950), Part II: Ancient Greeks and Worse, Hannibal

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2000s, Ever Wonder Why? and Other Controversial Essays (2006)
Source: Knowledge And Decisions

“The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.”
As quoted in Andrew Johnson, Plebeian and Patriot (1928) by Robert Watson Winston
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The Philippine Star http://www.philstar.com:8080/headlines/667587/government-urged-get-ready-rise-number-unemployed
2011
2012, " The Fair Tax Isn't Fair, It's a Farce http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=7101"