Confiscation Quotes
On the state's power to take what's yours.
These quotes treat confiscation as both a legal punishment and a broader feature of how the state funds itself, from strict justice demanding total confiscation to taxation described as confiscating a person's time. That framing connects with our Death collection through its discussion of death taxes.
Strict justice would demand total confiscation of your property, personal imprisonment and fines.
Many countries, even socialist Sweden and former communist Russia, have done away with their death taxes. They found the confiscation of wealth at death to be counterproductive.
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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 anticapitalist.
Money is time made tangible - the time invested in the earning of it. Taxation is the confiscation of the earner's time. Although some taxation is necessary, all taxation diminishes freedom.
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In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How is confiscation connected to taxation in these quotes?
Do any quotes mention confiscation as a legal penalty?
What do these quotes say about death taxes specifically?
Is confiscation described as necessary to how a state functions?
Are these quotes generally supportive or critical of confiscation?
Even socialist and former communist countries get mentioned as places that eventually abandoned confiscatory death taxes as counterproductive. For more, see our Communist page.
