Freedom, Prosperity, Power, Socialism And Taxes

I know that some might  consider it to be hyperbole, nevertheless, the following quotes (from certain scholars, not God) cause us to think about government power and the ability it has to tax.  When we throw terms around like "prosperity," "freedom," "socialism," and "power," we are discussing reality.  What can we do about it?  We can be aware.  We can be informed.  At times, we can be involved.  We can refuse to feel hopeless and helpless.  We can be positive, happy and grateful.  We can remember that it is not a perfect world.  We can be balanced. We can pray, praise, and give thanks.  We can present our petitions before God........in Jesus' name.  We can be obedient to the Word of God.  We can have faith.  We can remember that God is love.  We can remember that Jesus said:  "Give unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and unto God, the things that are God's."  On one occasion, he even performed a miracle so He could pay a tax.  (money in the mouth of a fish)  I love Jesus.  He is the best.  He is the everlasting Father.  (Isa. 9:6)  He is the almighty.  (Rev. 1:8)  He comforts us.  He is able to make the things we worry about......to be irrelevant.

"Subsidies entail politicians’ taking the citizen’s paycheck and then using it to buy his submission."
James Bovard American author,  lecturer

"As I watch government at all levels daily eat away at our freedom, I keep thinking how prosperity and government largesse have combined to make most of us fat and lazy and indifferent to, or actually
in favor of, the limits being placed on that freedom."    Lyn Nofziger (1924-2006) American journalist, political consultant, author, Press Secretary for President Reagan

"The Act of Congress which we are impugning before you is communistic in its purposes and tendencies, and is defended here upon principles as communistic, socialistic - what shall I call them - populistic as ever have been addressed to any political assembly in the world."
 Joseph H. Choate (1832-1917) attorney who successfully challenged the Income Tax Act of 1894

Who could impose such socialistic confiscatory rates?"
 William E. Borah1865-1940) United States Senator (R-Idaho)


"One of the most insidious consequences of the present burden of personal income tax is that it strips many middle class families of financial reserves; seems to lend support to campaigns for socialized medicine, socialized housing, socialized food, socialized every thing. The personal income tax has made the
individual vastly more dependent on the State; more avid for state hand-outs. It has shifted the balance in America from an individual-centered to a State-centered economic, social system."     
 W. H. Chamberlin(1897-1969) American historian, journalist, author