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By the standards of honest, if unorthodox, accounting, government workers don't pay taxes, but are paid out of taxes. In other words, they pay taxes out of money confiscated from taxpayers, who, in turn, pay taxes twice: on their own income and on the income of members of the bureaucracy. At the very least, this should disqualify state workers from voting."
— “Life in the Oink Sector,” WorldNetDaily.com, September 25, 2009.
If demands coming under the first of these principles were interpreted objectively, something very much resembling Marxian communism would result. Here are some of them: abolition of all income not earned by work; workers to share the profits of the large industries; abolition of land rent, and enactment of a law under which land might be confiscated without compensation for purposes of common interests; socialization of all incorporated business organizations.
— Kate Pinsdorf, on the NSDAP's programme, in 'Nature and Aims of the National Socialist German Labor Party', in The American Political Science Review, Vol. 25, No. 2 (May 1931), pp. 377-388
In 1972, Idi Amin expelled 80,000 [Ugandan] Indians and confiscated their 4,000 properties. Now, after returning those properties to their rightful owners, we have ensured that security of persons and property are guaranteed under the constitution.
yoweri museveni— On security of persons and property in Uganda, 23 September 2005 [4]
