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
citizens widows lines
At first it was the incomes of corporations, then of rich citizens, then of well-provided widows and opulent workers, and finally the wealth of housemaids and the tips of waitresses. This is all in line with the ability to pay doctrine. The poor, simply because there are more of them, have more ability to pay than the rich.
government giving liberty
The early American knew that freedom was nothing more than the absence of external restraint on behavior; the government could not give you freedom, it could only take it away.
issues promise add
Posterity does not pay off anything of the national debt. Each administration adds to the debt left to it, and the promise of liquidation implied in every bond issue is a false promise.
taken self care
When the individual is relieved of the obligation of self-respect, he acquires the habits of helplessness; he is inclined to retreat to the security of the prenatal state. The more he is taken care of the more he wants care.
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.