Taxation Quotes
Taxation Quote of the day
Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.
At the beginning of a dynasty, taxation yields a large revenue from small assessments. At the end of the dynasty, taxation yields a small revenue from large assessments.
There can be no such thing as 'fairness in taxation.' Taxation is nothing but organized theft, and the concept of a 'fair tax' is therefore every bit as absurd as that of 'fair theft.'
The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
No government can exist without taxation. The money must necessarily be levied on the people; and the grand art consists of levying so as not to oppress.
If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.
Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor. Seizing the results of someone's labor is equivalent to seizing hours from him and directing him to carry on various activities.
The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.
In america, there are two tax systems: one for the informed and one for the uninformed. Both are legal
I believe in a graduated income tax on big fortunes, and in . . . a graduated inheritance tax on big fortunes, . . . increasing rapidly in amount with the size of the estate.
Government spending is taxation. When you look at this, I've never heard of a poor person spending himself into prosperity; let alone I've never heard of a poor person taxing himself into prosperity.
Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum.
If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.
All taxes discourage something. Why not discourage bad things like pollution rather than good things like working?
Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.
All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
In proportion as you give the state power to do things for you, you give it power to do things to you.
Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.
People are not embracing collectivism because they have accepted bad economics. They are accepting bad economics because they have embraced collectivism.
Laissez faire (in its full true meaning) opens the way to the realization of the noble dreams of socialism.
When the government makes loans or subsidies to business, what it does is to tax successful private business in order to support unsuccessful private business.
I return my tax bill without paying it. My reason for doing so is that women suffer taxation yet have not representation.
Printing money is merely taxation in another form. Rather than robbing citizens of their money, government robs their money of its purchasing power.
An expropriating property protector (the state, through taxation) is a contradiction in terms
The greed and envy of the nonproducer is insatiable, so that eventually nothing short of 100% taxation will appease him.
An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation.
No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men.
I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual.
Taxation, gentlemen, is very much like dairy farming. The task is to extract the maximum amount of milk with the minimum amount of moo.
Taxation being a burthen, must needs weigh lightest on each individual, when it bears upon all alike.
The history of taxation shows that taxes which are inherently excessive are not paid. The high rates inevitably put pressure upon the taxpayer to withdraw his capital from productive business.
Progressive taxation of income and profits means that precisely those parts of the income which people would have saved and invested are taxed away
This is the Great Theatre of Life. Admission is free, but the taxation is mortal. You come when you can, and leave when you must. The show is continuous. Goodnight.
Everything a politician promises at election time has to be paid for either by higher taxation or by borrowing.
The welfare state is an enemy of private property. The excessive taxation used to support the welfare state is extremely dangerous.
In 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren't much happier about taxation with representation.
Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr.
Taxation is not a method by which the community corporately provides itself with essential services, but a fund to be divided between different interests with political claims upon the state.
