Those are the words of Howard Jarvis, father of California's pathbreaking tax limitation initiative Proposition 13. Unfortunately, death by taxes is an all too distinct possibility for many. All are victims of a coercive tax system that feeds wasteful spending practices, nurtures big government, and infringes on individual liberties. The root cause for these tax increases can be directly attributed to an expanding role of government at the federal, state, and local levels.
Government merely lives off the substance of others while producing nothing of any value.
This, of course, is not without a price. Remember that the function of taxes is to bankroll government operations. The more that is undertaken, the more funding is required to administer these bureaucratic mechanisms. Inevitably, it is taxpayers who must work longer and harder to absorb these costs. This year, Tax Freedom Day fell on May 6.