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The corruption of freedom is in proportion to the moral deterioration of the people. For a people who have lost their sense of self-respect have no need for freedom. And the income tax, by transferring the property of earners to the State, has disintegrated the moral fiber of Americans to such a degree that they do not even recognize the fact.

Frank Chodorov

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Frank Chodorov
Age: 79 †
Born: 1887
Born: February 15
Died: 1966
Died: December 28
Essayist
Political Scientist
New York City
New York
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State
Income
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Freedom
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Americans
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States
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The pertinent question: if Americans did not want these wars should they have been compelled to fight them?
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The freedoms won by Americans in 1776 were lost in the revolution of 1913.
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At first it was the incomes of corporations, then of rich citizens, then of well-provided widows and opulent workers, and finally the wealth of housemaids and the tips of waitresses. This is all in line with the ability to pay doctrine. The poor, simply because there are more of them, have more ability to pay than the rich.
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The more subsidized it is, the less free it is. What is known as 'free education' is the least free of all, for it is a state-owned institution it is socialized education - just like socialized medicine or the socialized post office - and cannot possibly be separated from political control.
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