Comments on: Quote: Thomas Paine on Taxation http://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/26/quote-thomas-paine-on-taxation/ The Neat Side of the Web Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:48:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: ted http://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/26/quote-thomas-paine-on-taxation/comment-page-1/#comment-419293 ted Mon, 28 Jan 2008 04:23:47 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/26/quote-thomas-paine-on-taxation/#comment-419293 It's not poetic. It's a feature of his rhetorical training. The quote really sounds to me like an echo of the Roman historian Tacitus. Paine's quote would remind his readers of Tacitus' writings about how the Roman emperors gradually and sneakily assumed control over the government, and over Roman lives. I'll have to look it up. It’s not poetic. It’s a feature of his rhetorical training.

The quote really sounds to me like an echo of the Roman historian Tacitus. Paine’s quote would remind his readers of Tacitus’ writings about how the Roman emperors gradually and sneakily assumed control over the government, and over Roman lives.

I’ll have to look it up.

]]> By: Steohawk http://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/26/quote-thomas-paine-on-taxation/comment-page-1/#comment-417198 Steohawk Sat, 26 Jan 2008 22:59:21 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/26/quote-thomas-paine-on-taxation/#comment-417198 "Tax is theft!" - Samuel Edward Konkin III, founder of agorism (1947 - 2004) Personally, I like Thomas Paine's quote better. It's more poetic. “Tax is theft!”
– Samuel Edward Konkin III, founder of agorism (1947 – 2004)

Personally, I like Thomas Paine’s quote better. It’s more poetic.

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