Taxation Quotes
Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
The only real good technology is no technology at all. Technology is taxation without representation, imposed by our elitist species (man) upon the rest of the natural world.
The institution of taxation rests foursquare on the axiom that somebody must rule somebody else.
Taxation according to income is the most effective instrument yet devised to obtain just contribution from those best able to bear it and to avoid placing onerous burdens upon the mass of our people.
Democratic nation states remain far more capable of managing the circuit of coercion, taxation and legitimation than any transnational bodies.
Day in and day out, your tax accountant can make or lose you more money than any single person in your life, with the possible exception of your kids
All taxation is an evil, but heavy taxes, indiscriminately levied on every everything are one of the greatest curses that can afflict a people
A general principle of good taxation is that similar jobs, and similar kinds of compensation, should be taxed the same way: otherwise, the government is effectively subsidizing some jobs over others.
Taxation of private property, or the regulation of such property so as to reduce its value, can become in effect a form of servitude.
I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.
Inflation is not a benign element in the economy's operation. It is, as it has always been, the most dangerous and destructive form of taxation.
Besides, we had a large debt, contracted at home and abroad in our War of Independence; therefore the great power of taxation was conferred upon this Government.
The necessary connexion of representatives with taxes, seems to have sunk deep into many of those minds, that admit sounds, without their meaning.
Would it not be better to simplify the system of taxation rather than to spread it over such a variety of subjects and pass through so many new hands.
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.
I would suggest the taxation of all property equally, whether church or corporation, exempting only the last resting place of the dead and possibly, with proper restrictions, church edifices.
The tendency of taxation is, to create a class of persons, who do not labour: to take from those who do labour the produce of that labour, and to give it to those who do not labour.
The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work.
As a taxpayer, you are required to be fully in compliance with the United States Tax Code, which is currently the size and weight of the Budweiser Clydesdales.
Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old.
It is not the role of government to use the taxation and welfare system as a tool to level the playing field.
Have no power, by taxation or otherwise, to retard, impede, burden or in any manner control the operations of the constitutional laws enacted by Congress.
The better an entrepreneur succeeds, the more is he vilified and themore is he soaked by taxation.
I prefer for government to err toward less regulation, lower taxation, and free markets. And I'm a radical free trader.
Unlike every other person and institution in society, government obtains its revenue from coercion, from taxation.
There is no escaping the fact that when the taxation of large incomes is excessive, they tend to disappear.
There are only three ways to meet the unpaid bills of a nation. The first is taxation. The second is repudiation. The third is inflation.
Undoubtedly Internet has reduced the possibilities of taxation. Why should I buy something here if I can buy it from a company in Japan or England or Brazil with a lower tax?
The blame for the maddening complications of the federal tax system goes to the people with the most money
If the exercise of power of internal taxation by the Union should be discovered on experiment to be really inconvenient, the federal government may then forbear the use of it . . .
The power of creating new funds upon new objects of taxation, by its own authority, would enable the national government to borrow as far as its necessities might require.
I have lived and worked in Britain all my life. Not even in the dark days of penal Labour taxation in the Seventies did I have any intention of leaving the country of my birth.
In a fully free society, taxation-or, to be exact, payment for governmental services-would be voluntary.
I will eliminate capital-gains taxes for the small businesses and the startups that will create the high-wage, high-tech jobs of tomorrow
What I agree with is that we need a significantly changed taxation system. And the one that I've advocated is based on tithing, because I think God is a pretty fair guy.
Throughout his life, Ronald Reagan believed America is capable of great things and its people could and would lead the way if left unburdened by taxation and regulation.
All the forms of double taxation in the current system are punitive and self-destructive because they are literally destroying people's incentive to provide that seed corn for future economic growth.
We are looking for a Wealth Tax that will bring in sufficient revenue to justify having a wealth tax.
The estate tax has been a disaster. First of all it's double taxation, some people could even say it's triple taxation.
By the end of the Twentieth Century, taxation will be reduced to a minimum, the entire world will be open to trade, and there will be no need of a standing army.
Count the day won, when the earth, turning on its axis, imposes no additional taxes