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First Principles: We Cannot Be Happy, Without Being Free…We Cannot Be Free, Without Being Secure In Our Property

Posted on January 12, 2026 by alohapromisesforever

“Let these truths be indelibly impressed on our minds — that we cannot be happy, without being FREE — that we cannot be free, without being secure in our property— that we cannot be secure in our property, if, without … Continue reading →

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First Principles: A Government Which Lays Taxes On the People Not Required By Urgent Public Necessity and Sound Public Policy Is Not A Protector of Liberty, But An Instrument of Tyranny

Posted on January 5, 2026 by alohapromisesforever

“A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but an instrument of tyranny. It condemns the citizen to servitude.” – Calvin Coolidge

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A Healthy Affordability

Posted on December 8, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

A Healthy Affordabilityby Michael DoyleThe trick to this is durability,If you’re looking for real sustainability.Common sense is the secret to an economyIn which everyone gains the needed ability…For all of us to make a reasonable living,And without that ability, there … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: A Great Civilization Is Not Conquered From Without, Until It Has Destroyed Itself From Within

Posted on November 5, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome’s decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her … Continue reading →

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First Principles: The Budget Should Be Balanced Not By More Taxes, But By Reduction of Follies

Posted on October 20, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“The budget should be balanced not by more taxes, but by reduction of follies.” – Herbert Hoover

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First Principles: If Duties Are Too High, They Lessen Consumption… This Forms A Complete Barrier Against Any Material Oppression of the Citizens By Taxes of This Class

Posted on April 3, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“If duties are too high, they lessen the consumption; the collection is eluded; and the product to the treasury is not so great as when they are confined within proper and moderate bounds. This forms a complete barrier against any … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Collecting More Taxes Than Is Absolutely Necessary Is Legalized Robbery

Posted on August 8, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.” – Calvin Coolidge

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First Principles: It was Intended To Lace Them Up Straightly Within Enumerated Powers and Those Without Which, As Means, These Powers Could Not Be Carried Into Effect

Posted on September 24, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“They are not to do anything they please to provide for the general welfare, but only to lay taxes for that purpose. To consider the latter phrase not as describing the purpose of the first, but as giving a distinct … Continue reading →

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First Principles: When Taxes Go So Far As To Entrench On the Subsistence of the People, These Become Burdensome and Oppressive

Posted on May 20, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“Taxation to a certain point is not only proper but useful, because by stimulating the industry of individuals it increases the wealth of the Community. But when Taxes go so far as to intrench on the subsistence of the people … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Nothing Is Certain But Death and Taxes

Posted on April 9, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” – Benjamin Franklin (1789)

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