Quote of the Day
"... we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must select between economy and liberty or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts as that we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our labors and amusements... our people... must come to labor sixteen hours, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and expenses; and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live... We have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account; but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow sufferers. Our landholders too... retaining the title and stewardship of estates called theirs, but held really in trust for the treasury... Private fortunes are destroyed by public as well as private extravagance. This is the tendency of all human governments. And the fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train, wretchedness and oppression." Thomas Jefferson |
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