Taxation is theft, purely and simply even though it is theft on a grand and colossal scale which no acknowledged criminals could hope to match. It is a compulsory seizure of the property of the State’s inhabitants, or subjects.

― Murray N. Rothbard

The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life. And many, if not most, taxes are paid under the compulsion of that threat.

The government does not, indeed, waylay a man in a lonely place, spring upon him from the road side, and, holding a pistol to his head, proceed to rifle his pockets. But the robbery is none the less a robbery on that account; and it is far more dastardly and shameful.

The highwayman takes solely upon himself the responsibility, danger, and crime of his own act. He does not pretend that he has any rightful claim to your money, or that he intends to use it for your own benefit. He does not pretend to be anything but a robber. He has not acquired impudence enough to profess to be merely a “protector,” and that he takes men’s money against their will, merely to enable him to “protect” those infatuated travellers, who feel perfectly able to protect themselves, or do not appreciate his peculiar system of protection. He is too sensible a man to make such professions as these. Furthermore, having taken your money, he leaves you, as you wish him to do. He does not persist in following you on the road, against your will; assuming to be your rightful “sovereign,” on account of the “protection” he affords you. He does not keep “protecting” you, by commanding you to bow down and serve him; by requiring you to do this, and forbidding you to do that; by robbing you of more money as often as he finds it for his interest or pleasure to do so; and by branding you as a rebel, a traitor, and an enemy to your country, and shooting you down without mercy, if you dispute his authority, or resist his demands. He is too much of a gentleman to be guilty of such impostures, and insults, and villanies as these. In short, he does not, in addition to robbing you, attempt to make you either his dupe or his slave.

― Lysander Spooner

What is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.

― George Mason, father of the Bill of Rights

One note:

It does not matter whether we are a majority or a minority, our rights are our rights and no collection of men have the authority to infringe on our liberties regardless of their number.

Appealing to our status as a Majority gives implicit support to the notion that people may infringe upon our natural rights if they can find enough agreement to do so.

The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it.

― John Hay

Leftists are the biggest beneficiaries of Republicans’ commitment to “save the republic”

― Eric July

We have lost our belief that freedom works, because we no longer have the imagination to conceive of how a free people might solve its problems without introducing threats of violence—which is what government solutions ultimately amount to.

― Ron Paul

But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case it is unfit to exist.

― Lysander Spooner

Two can play that game:

https://mises.org/wire/racist-history-gun-control-1

https://mises.org/wire/racist-history-minimum-wage-laws

Military force is justified only in self-defense; naked aggression is the province of dictators and rogue states.

― Ron Paul

https://youtu.be/rUKsE1KIeH4?t=40

https://youtu.be/rUKsE1KIeH4?t=40

But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case it is unfit to exist.

― Lysander Spooner

We shouldn't be there at all.

If China invaded here you'd be fighting in your neighborhood as well, and you wouldn't have a uniform.

If you are a member of the military you should be ashamed at minimum at the fact that your salary represents a theft from the productive people of the country.

Your intentions may be noble, but government fundamentally causes good people to do bad things in the name of good; that's what makes it exceptionally dangerous.

Why do you want them to pay more money to Biden's government?

War is a mess.

All the more reason not to start them.

You can see the mask in the photo.

I think they should be a bit more embarrassed by the widespread murder of civilians abroad than woke posturing at home.

But that's just me.

Taxed to death.

Note that the first police victim associated with the "I can't breathe" meme is Eric Garner.

He was assaulted by police for the crime of selling untaxed cigarettes from out of state.

Literally taxed to death.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Eric_Garner

The mere fact that the political crooks wrote something down and declared their threats to be ‘law’ does not mean that any human being anywhere has the slightest moral obligation to obey. Every moment of every day, in every location and every situation, you have a moral obligation to do what you deem to be right, not what some delusional bloated windbag says is ‘legal.’ And that requires you to first determine right and wrong for yourself.

― Larken Rose

Since the State necessarily lives by the compulsory confiscation of private capital, and since its expansion necessarily involves ever-greater incursions on private individuals and private enterprise, we must assert that the state is profoundly and inherently anti-capitalist.

― Murray N. Rothbard

Can you blame them? It's regulations and big government killing industry in our country.

Obama was able to confidently say "those jobs aren't coming back" because they have no plans to lift their boot off the neck of productive people.

Now here’s a radical idea: what if we ... decided to stop robbing one another? What if we decided that there was a better, more humane way for people to interact with each other? What if we stopped doing things we would consider morally outrageous if done by private individuals but that we consider perfectly all right when carried out by government in the name of “public policy”?

― Ron Paul

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.

― George Orwell

No matter how much people on the left talk about compassion, they have no compassion for the taxpayers.

― Thomas Sowell