Taxation Quotes

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.

My first rule - the golden rule - ensures that over the economic cycle the Government will borrow only to invest, and that current spending will be met from taxation.

Abolish all taxation save that upon land values.

When land and its tillage are the basis of taxation, one need not care exactly how many people there are.

I think the Republicans have really thoughtful financial policies, and I'm more in the middle on taxation.

Every dollar released from taxation that is spared or invested will help create a new job and a new salary.

Inflation is a form of hidden taxation which it is almost impossible to measure.

I would suggest to my honourable Friend that the foreign investor is at least as discouraged by high national debt for that, as all example shows, is the surest precursor of high taxation.

Peace and prosperity are inversely proportional to the level of taxation.

Greece is an extreme case: a country where both the level of spending and the level of taxation were unsustainable!

The biggest review of taxation ever undertaken in this country, is now dead in the water.

We have to change economic policy: create confidence, foster investment, cut the public deficit, restructure taxation, and reform the labor laws.

That's the "magic" of double-taxation treaties: you can shop around for the lowest taxer.

Not one cent should be raised unless it is in accord with the law.

Close loopholes, close the special interest Washington carve outs and that means more incomes subject to taxation so we're going to lower the rates on our businesses and be fair.

Let me tell you, that's what taxation is - it's confiscation. It's your money, it's not the government's money. But the government makes you think that it all comes from them.

Those jobs flee other states because of factors like excessive taxation, punitive regulation and frivolous lawsuits.

Did you ever get to wondering if taxation without representation might have been cheaper?

Many persons read and like fiction. It does not tax the intelligence and the intelligence of most of us can so ill afford taxation that we rightly welcome any reading matter which avoids this.

What I know is that taxation, as far as liberal Democrats are concerned, is not about money. It's about power.

The highest-income Americans don't need tax-free health insurance, mortgage interest deductions or deferred taxation on retirement funds.

The world is ruled by butterflies adding to their weapon piles. Imagine what your taxes buy. We hardly ever try.

When it comes to taxation, Americans are still banging out letters on a typewriter and dropping them in the mail box while everybody else has moved on to texting and Instagram.

Many of the opposition [to the new Federal Constitution] wish to take from Congress the power of internal taxation. Calculation has convinced me that this would be very mischievous.

Taxes should be proportioned to what may be annually spared by the individual.

It must be observed that our revenues are raised almost wholly on imported goods.

Taxation is, in fact, the most difficult function of government and that against which their citizens are most apt to be refractory.

It is from the power of taxation being in the hands of those who can throw so great a part of it from their own shoulders, that it has raged without a check.

Those tax-exempt bonds were put in so that a town or a state or a government could sell more bonds than it ought to.

Economy is the first and great article (economy such as I understand it) in my financial creed. The controversy between direct and indirect taxation holds a minor, though important place.

It (land value taxation) guarantees that no one dispossess fellow citizens by obtaining a disproportionate share of what nature provides for humanity.

The more laws and restrictions there are, The poorer people become....The more rules and regulations, The more thieves and robbers.

The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. 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.

Politics: the art of using euphemisms, lies, emotionalism and fear-mongering to dupe average people into accepting--or even demanding--their own enslavement.

When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.

Deep pockets and empty hearts rule the world. We unleash them at our peril.

No one has the right to place one human being in a position of political power over another.

You've been taught to "render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's". Unlearn that lesson. Free men would not permit Caesar to exist.

Whenever someone starts talking about 'fair competition' or indeed, about 'fairness' in general, it is time to keep a sharp eye on your wallet, for it is about to be picked.

Socialism is an alternative to capitalism as potassium cyanide is an alternative to water.

Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.

It is precisely democracy which is destroying the American political structure, American law, and the American economy.

All told, over the period 1932-1980, nearly half a century, the top federal income tax rate in the United States averaged 81 percent.

I was reading in the paper today that Congress wants to replace the dollar bill with a coin. They’ve already done it. It’s called a nickel.

People and institutions that refuse to admit error eventually discredit themselves.

What's the best way to make sure that the poor have a share in a country's growing wealth: Regulation? Taxes? Philanthropy?

The problem with taxation is that authors can't write off whiskey as a business expense.

A valid contract requires voluntary offer, acceptance, and consideration.

Government should never be able to do anything you can't do. If you can't steal from your neighbor, you can't send the government to steal for you.

Socialism is not a meritocracy. By definition it places increasingly confining restraints on those that succeed the most.