Taxation Quotes

Beware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry.

Taxation under every form presents but a choice of evils.

Yes I pay taxes... There are no ethics in the face of coercion, that is blaming the victim. Focus on the man with the gun, not the man in the crosshairs trying to survive.

Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products of others through prices voluntarily arrived at.

Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure.

The crime of taxation is not in the taking it, it's in the way that it's spent.

This is a form of double taxation and it's simply unfair.

The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.

Should government refrain from regulation (taxation), the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent and the fraud can no longer be concealed.

Capital goes to where it can escape taxation and be used to pay employees in sacks of rice.

What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue.

[The Internal Revenue Code is] about 10 times the size of the Bible and, unlike the Bible, contains no good news

A small business person has Uncle Sam as a partner, a partner who puts up no money, does no work, and wants 30 or 40 percent

Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.

Congress can raise taxes because it can persuade a sizable fraction of the populace that somebody else will pay

He who has the base necessities of life should pay nothing; taxation on him who has a surplus may, if need be; extend to everything beyond necessities.

Sugar, rum and tobacco are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, which are become objects of almost universal consumption, and which are therefore extremely proper subjects of taxation.

Taxation is nothing but organized robbery, and there the subject should be dropped.

A just security to property is not afforded by that government, under which unequal taxes oppress one species of property and reward another species.

Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't been taxed before.

If the money is raised by taxation, then the burden will fall where it ought to fall, . . . and the rich and stingy will no longer be able to evade the duties of citizenship and of humanity.

A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.

It's income tax time again, Americans: time to gather up those receipts, get out those tax forms, sharpen up that pencil, and stab yourself in the aorta

It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.

Few of us ever test our powers of deduction, except when filling out an income tax form

Still less let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own.

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

In the matter of taxation, every privilege is an injustice.

What we should have fought for was representation without taxation.

Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.

The fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follow that, and in its turn wretchedness and oppression.

If politicians get money to spend and don't have to be responsible for taxation, then of course that will bias their attitude toward more spending as opposed to cutting back on spending.

Excessive taxation . . . will carry reason & reflection to every man's door, and particularly in the hour of election.

Printing money is merely taxation in another form.

I believe in thrift as I believe in freedom, but I don't support the plutocratic hostility to taxation, regulation, and protections of land, water, and air.

Is there a point of taxation wherein even a Democrat would acknowledge it is thievery by the government?

Taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.

Tens of billions ... are going into the pockets of tens of thousands of tax preparers who ... love complexity as much as the rest of us hate it

The U.S. is the country that invented progressive taxation of income and of inherited wealth in the 1910s and 20s.

Let not his mode of raising cash seem strange, Although he fleeced the flags of every nation, For into a prime minister but change His title, and 'tis nothing but taxation.

I would suggest the taxation of all property equally whether church or corporation.

The United States has a system of taxation by confession

Taxes are indeed very heavy - We are taxed twice as much by our Idleness. Three times as much by our Pride. And four times as much by our Folly.

The separation of Church and State in everything relating to taxation should be absolute.

Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.

My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury.

Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.

No taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant.

I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.

The institution of taxation is not a civilized but a barbaric method to fund anything, because it amounts to nothing less than outright extortion, a gross violation of human liberty.